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[quote=Anonymous]I think there are a few other things you might want to consider.

1) Are you staff or contract employees?

2) I am an economist. Presumably you are too, so don't the recent collapses in pension funds, public and private,  give you pause in counting on them as your main funding for  retirement?

3) If you are aiming for a university abroad, you will probably want to target International Baccalaureate schools, whether public or private. Applying to university will be much easier. US universities are looking for different things: a broad set of skills, heavy extracurricular involvement to signal motivation etc.

4) My child is at Marie Reed. The teachers at the preschool level had Masters degrees, there are dedicated science classes, and teacher turnover is low.  I don't think NCRC can make any of those claims. Private schools in the US offer lower salaries, so teachers tend to be less experienced and turnover is high. What privates do offer is smaller class sizes, which allows for more writing instruction.

5)You  have probably read the research (mostly done by economists) that generally finds that about 25 % of the variation in exam results across kids is determined by the school, while home characteristics explain 60% of that variation.[/quote]

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