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So, let me understand this.  If the private schools don't push math and science as much then what do they concentrate on?  Writing?  Foreign Languages? Arts, Sports? I would think you should expect a well rounded education for all this money you are paying.

OP here.  Of course as a parent you want the best for your kids, but at the young age you don't know what your kid is going to be good at.  My kid is only 2, I don't know whether he has the beginnings of a math genius, a music prodigy or a writer, or maybe he just doesn't even have any specific above average skills or may even be needing extra help to keep up with average kids.   If you must move somewhere in the near future and make this decision on the area to live, how do you do this?  If I don't know what my kid's needs are going to be, [b]my thinking is just send him to the public elementary school in a good school district and then see as time goes what to concentrate on. [/b] If it proves to be necessary that my kid needs special education needs, then find a school that offers it, if not, stay put.

I am also well aware of the class distinctions and the fact that the private schools tend to serve elites.  So, it might be desirable from the perspective of gaining connections for your child to go to the private school, this is how it was in the place where I am from, it was more exaggerated because private schools were really exclusive and their numbers very small as public school was the default for the vast majority of the population.  the upward mobility was also pretty much dependent on connections and who you know, this is not as prominent here in the US.  But even if this is true to some extent in the US, [b]does this really matter until your kid is in college or at least in high school? [/b] Why spend so much money for the elementary schools, what connections for the future life will your 7 year old develop and keep that he cannot when he is let's say 16?  [/quote]

Yes to both bolded statements. In fact I would say connections don't matter until college, conceivably even grad school.
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