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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Come on. Public schools in this area are not the “cheapest crappiest” places.[/quote]

Again - metaphor.  The point is just because I want to stay at Rosewood and not Bonvoy does not mean you get to suggest I suck. Maybe if you don't have as much money as me to do that, well, that's another thing, but if I have kids like I said that would do better where they are, F you for suggesting that they would be fine in the school of your choice.  You have no right to tell others about what is best for their kids.  It's a choice.  You don't want to go to private, I say you had to.  So the kind of people like you who disparage other families who for one reason or another make the choice based on their situation or environment or question whether it may be a better option to do so - you are jealous egotistical and judgmental people who have no business complaining private school parents are this.  You have no idea what kind of challenges we faced in public before moving to private where we are so much happier and the kids are doing well.  That you spread these falsehoods that a public education should be the only option or good enough for everyone is absolutely wrong.  The better response is - some families do better in private v public, or some families choose to for a lot of reasons we'll never understand.  Ignorant people like you are why we have so many issues in public because you think there exists no problems that public that ought to be fixed and made better so we can actually choose to go to public!!![/quote]

People who think public school is the only way to go and judge anyone who dares to disagree tend to be the same people who clock in and out like good little employees and don’t question any institution like the good little sheep that they are. [/quote]

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