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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with your DH but as a compromise:

I’d start at public and reevaluate for middle school, as someone else said. Also be very aware that admission/entry to private is generally far more difficult later on (while entry in K is easy).

Also be aware that [b]neighborhood culture[/b], mom friends etc- while wonderful during the early years- [b]becomes a lot less relevant by mid-elementary or so[/b]. By then, all the parents will be back to work FT and families spending their weekends on travel sports. There will be exceptions, but not many.

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That has been my experience too. At one point when my oldest was in early elementary there were 3 other kids on the block in the same grade who went to the same large neighborhood elementary. None of them hung out. One was in a travel sports family that was gone all the time, one was in a religious weirdo family who withdrew and later went to a christian school. And one kid was opposite gender and never in the same class as mine. A few blocks a way was a gaggle of families whose kids were all friends. It's very random and there's no guarantee that going to a neighborhood school results in neighborhood friends. [/quote]

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