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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm OP and I can't believe it but I'm back.

So people read it as an insult to their own parenting if I put my kid in private? Would I offend people if I moved to a neighborhood different than the one they chose or bought a different car? It seems like unless people are unsure of their own decisions they should not be offended. If they really think their school is better they should pity me for throwing away my money on something so ill informed right? I don't hear pity though, I hear hostility.

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Our experience was difference.

We took our boys out of the local, top MOCO school and moved them into a private as each entered 5th grade.

Our neighbors/friends, whose kids stayed in the public schools didn't like it very much. But it wasn't a jealousy thing. It was their sense that we were breaking up the gang that had played on so many teams together, went to school together and played together in the neighborhood. They wanted this rather large group of kids and parents to stay together. So they viewed us as disloyal to the community and of not sharing the same feelings.

The schools and the kids and the teams, both school teams and non-school teams were a large part of what held the group together.

And they were right because once these boys started to go to different schools, those friendship, both the kids and the parents, were never the same.

We wouldn't have done anything different even with hindsight. The private schools we sent them to were superior experiences academically, socially and athletically. The fracturing of those friendships was just unavoidable collateral damage.[/quote]

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