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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]19:41 again, let me add to the above.
Private: bad teachers (who smile), bad curriculum (never age appropriate, often pulled out of the air), too many holidays, too little class time (because of all the specials).
Public: little challenge, little attention, too much academic time, too little down time, too strict, boring (but if they have noting to compare it too that is OK). [/quote]

I continue to be amazed that people take their experience at a single private school or a single public school and extrapolate across all privates or all publics. Every school is different and every child is different. Go look at all of your options -- public and private -- and see which school among them seems to best fit your child/family. While the PP thinks her child gets too little class time because of the specials, for some people, the specials are exactly what make the tuition worthwhile. If you find a school where the specials are well-integrated with the rest of the curriculum, it's just increasing the depth of your child's knowledge about any particular thing. [/quote]

People have to extrapolate, because there's no study or collection of data.  So imperfect imformation is all we have.  Visiting and touring doesn't give perfect info either.  A large part of it is guessing, but i do appreciate others' experiences.
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http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo16956223.html

These guys have done extensive studies and they came to the conclusion that there is no outcome difference. 
They go further to imply that bad public schools are much much better than bad private schools. [/quote]

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