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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wish I had dug a little deeper and realized how little they push the kids in math.

I stupidly went into this thinking that smaller class size means my kid gets a lot more attention than in public.  Actually my kid is getting a little bit more attention, because all of the families are expecting their kid (and themselves as parents/consumers) to get a lot more attention than in public.  I also stupidly thought that all the kids at our not-that-competitive private would be bright and have no major issues, when in fact many of them are at this school precisely *because* they need extra help and were falling behind.[/quote]

Interesting.  We are experiencing a variation on this, but not as negative (yet).  I feel like DD's classmates fall into one of three categories: visiting international students with weak English but a lot of support at home, they usually catch up quickly; [b]kids who are a little too emotional to thrive in a large class but not all the way to needing an IEP[/b]; and kids (like mine) who are bright enough to get ignored at our public but not brilliant enough for special assignments in public.  I do feel like DD gets a lot more attention than she did in public.

OP didn't ask what the pros of private school are but for us the music and arts emphasis is a big reason we've stayed rather than return to public where those activities are an afterthought at best.[/quote]

This may get to be a more serious problem as your kids get older.  Sometimes what seems to other parents to be a minor problem is actually a big one as the kid's emotional maturity or underlying issue (ASD or whatever) becomes a bigger problem as expectations increase with age.[/quote]
IME, there are a lot of "hothouse flowers" in private.  Their parents choose it to shelter them, but it doesn't always help, and the coddling can actually make some things worse.

Also, the fundraising pressure can be rough, especially if tuition (which goes up every single year) is already any kind of stretch.  [/quote]

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