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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As others have said, if you only look at private school as a means to a specific college outcome then it makes no sense. But I don’t think that is how most private school families view it.[/quote]how naive[/quote]
This is not naive at all. Clearly based on OPs wording, OP views private as a means to an end of hoped for better college admissions. If that is anyone’s goal, then it’s not worth it. 
We do private bc it has instilled a love and true interest in learning in our kids. They have critical thinking skills and amazing public speaking skills which they’ve slowly been taught since K. 
I went to both public and private in DC, and while I had straight As in public, I got to private and floundered.[b] I only knew how to learn by memorization and regurgitation. I was light years behind my classmates who went into depth on everything and made it look easy[/b]. By graduation I had caught up. When I went to college, it was truly easy as I was basically over-prepared. The skills from my private high school carried over into interviewing and my early jobs. Sure I probably would have gotten into the same colleges (or better bc not competing vs a whole grade of qualified peers), but I wouldn’t have traded my private high school education for anything. We have put all of our kids in private since k. [/quote]

These days publics try to go in depth (which they don't succeed at) without memorization and regurgitation of the basics. You need both. Good schools have both. Diagramming sentences and using complex sentence structure to make a compelling argument. Memorizing multiplication tables and applying multiplication to complex real world problems.[/quote]

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