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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not rip him away from his friends. That's cruel.[/quote]

Or is it cruel to leave him in his current school?[/quote]

Why would it be cruel to leave a child where they are happy and doing well?[/quote]

Doing well by what measures?  The standards at public school?[/quote]

You do realize that a lot of people (including in my extended family) send their kid to private because they couldn’t hack it according to public school standards? A relative of mine was going to have to repeat a grade in public, but was then was welcomed with open arms by a private school. Of course there are extremely rigorous private schools. I’m just saying that it’s an absurdly broad brush to say all private schools have higher standards than public schools, or vice versa. It all depends on the individual school.[/quote]

Unless it is a magnet public school that kids test into, the standards at public are going to be low.[/quote]

Maybe at some public schools, yes. But borne of my personal experience, some private schools have even lower standards than certain public schools. As I said, it all depends on the school. Comparisons between specific schools are possible, but broad comparisons of simply “public vs. private” don’t yield useful info.[/quote]

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