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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I are battling over whether to keep our son at a Big 3.  He is in 9th grade, and as far as we can tell, is in the bottom half of his class.  Bright kid.  Good extracurriculars, but nothing to really make him stand out.  I'm of the mind that paying 30K + per year is an investment of sorts, and can't really be measured by college placement.  My DH is much more data driven, and thinks that if our son isn't going to end up at a top university by virtue of his bottom half status, we might as well just go public.  We are in the BCC school district.

I still think that even bottom half kids at Big 3 schools end up at name brand colleges.  But apart from thinking that, have nothing to back it up.  So, if your kid was at a Big 3 and was not an academic standout, but in the bottom half, where did he/she end up going to college?

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We are in a similar boat, with a rising 8th grader at a large MoCo private, paying $35k+ per year for our middle-of-the-road son, on top of paying taxes for all the public school kids.  While DH and I make a nice living, that extra $35K/yr would look tremendous in our investment account, with retirement not too far down the horizon.  I often ask myself the same question, since I know that my charismatic son will not be spending four years in Cambridge, New Haven or Palo Alto.

But we leave him in because his school gives my son confidence, a positive community attitude, and leaves him surrounded by children with like-minded parents.  We fear that sending him to a large public (we are in the BCC cluster) would present too many temptations.  I know that there are some tremendous students that come out of the local public schools (and I attended suburban public schools myself, K-12), but I fear my son would be attracted to the kids who run toward the bottom 20%, not the top 50%.  So we leave him in private, to help Jesus in our pleas to not "lead him not into temptation".

Plus, with my son's charisma I see him in sales later on, and 20 years from now his private school friends may be in a better position to purchase insurance, a car or software from him -- or even contribute to his campaign.   :shock:

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