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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I feel...." doesn't answer this.
"A higher percentage of kids from private school attend college...." really doesn't prove anything because of the correlation of wealthy parents (who can afford private school) and higher intelligence/higher college participation. Meaning: Those kids in private school probably would have attended college anyway if they hadn't attended private school.
"My private school provides religious education..." OK, I suppose that can't easily be replicated in public school though parents can provide religious education extracurricularly.

If your next door neighbors' kids got into equivalent colleges/universities and/or excelled academically equivalently as your private school educated kids, did the private school necessarily outperform the public school? (And "outperform" often means "provides better peers" because there's a bigger difference between the students at high and low performing schools than there is between the faculty/resources/equipment/labs/etc at high and low performing schools.

Bottom line: If you live in a neighborhood with fairly high performing students, why send your kids to private school? Can you conclude the private school provides significantly (at least $20K year per kid) better service? If you are like my parents were, had a single kid and lived in a neighborhood with poor performing peers (all of my street buddies were burned out pot heads and coke addicts and hardly any graduated high school), then private school (where I attended) certainly provided a better product and service due to the high performing peers (Vin Scully's kids, movie stars' kids, etc).
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OP, did you attend Brentwood or Harvard Westlake?

In any case, our family has several children, and we live in an excellent public school district in the DMV (top 3 locally).  Nevertheless, we chose to send our three children to private.  Some of the reasons we sent our children to private school include, among others, the much smaller class sizes; more personalized instruction from, and relationship between teacher and student; a greater focus on, and resources for, math, science, language, and arts; strong faculty support in terms of additional instruction, extracurricular activities, counselors, and college advisors.  Our two oldest attend top Ivy League schools, but that is not important; what I value is that their private school(s) helped my children grow and mature into well-educated, intellectual, artistic, very informed, independent thinkers and doers.  Having longtime, experienced teachers who love the school and care about your children, who really get to know their students well because of smaller class sizes, and who are given the academic freedom to guide and explore learning, is so valuable.

All that said, do I think that my children could have had a great education at our top-rated local public or magnet schools?  Yes, absolutely I do.  But as everything turned out well (at least so far), I do not regret our decision.[/quote]

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