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Reply to "Families who can afford private but go public, why?"
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[quote=Anonymous]I'm going to answer before I read the other posts. We did public for elementary and middle school, private for high school. Why we chose public: 1.) Having chosen a town with a good reputation for schools, we wanted to use them. 2.) We were impressed with the resources. We knew that if any of our kids had needs, they would be met in the building. The local Catholic elementary school doesn't have much in the way of enrichment, music, etc. 3.) Some snobbishness from local Catholic school families. 4.) We liked the energy at the public school. We went to visit and it felt like a great, happy place. Why we chose private later: 1.) Public system was very large. Wanted a smaller environment. 2.) Some behavior issues at public middle. Would have been the same kids feeding into public high school. 3.) Public school seemed to rest on past laurels and didn't really respond to falling test scores and other issues. I'm happy we did some of both. [/quote]
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