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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously nothing is a guarantee- but if your kid is brilliant and really excels at what is considered an average public school - they can certainly still get into Ivy League schools. You don't need to pay for these overpriced privates if you can't afford it.[/quote]

IF your kid is perfect - well adjusted socially, a self-starter who knows what they are with a strong sense of self and confidence, someone who does not have the slightest learning disability and is mature enough to navigate some public schools which are a mess - both environmentally, with bad crowds, with messed up kids and with high volume classes - then I 1000% agree with you that public is all you need.  And we have a number of friends with kids like this.  Mine aren't.  They are sweet and sensitive, one has dyslexia and ADHD and they really would not be served well in public.  So for you to judge me as a parent who loves my kids and want to give them the best I can for their life for the next 6 years left in their academic career prior to college, yeah, go ahead and judge.  I just hope that one day something doesn't happen to your family where you don't need more help in some capacity.

PS - It's also akin in a less dramatic metaphor - when you go on holiday, you can stay at a nice hostel and be perfectly well housed.  You may sleep in a crappy bed and kinda worry that you're not going to wake up to bedbugs and not be necessarily 100% comfortable but hey, you got a roof over your head while you are on your "nice" vacation.  I personally would want to stay in a nicer place.  So yeah, private school is maybe that nicer place where it'll cost more for sure but the right place will make my holiday worth it.  But if you don't mind staying in the cheapest crappiest places, don't be angry I don't want to do the same![/quote]

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