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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all keep saying better prepared. My neighbors kid who goes to public seems pretty prepared to me. She just won a national writing contest and got ED into Yale. She’s constantly involved in activities around social justice and is on her schools speech and debate team. Shes friendly with my kids and they do there is crossover in the neighborhood social groups from school since they all grew up together.  I’m trying to say that I do know many of these kids.  Public kids don’t  seem to be suffering academically or intellectually or in unpreparedness in any way.  Her older sibling actually tutors area kids in the summer for math and writing and college prep. Parents went to non-Ivy League schools and are very comfortable but not at the upper echelon of caliber that I see have private. I’m just questioning what better prepared means. My kid has a lot of Homework and he’s also in a much much smaller school and smaller class ratios I still don’t see how that prepare somebody better - again I’m all for private and we can afford it but that’s just one argument that I keep hearing over and over that doesn’t make sense to me -  please explain more of what you mean.  [/quote]

Better prepared means they learn the value of working very hard and not always getting what they want from the hard work. Also having adults see them so they can't get into as much teen trouble. So when they get to college they can deal with the work load. Not so sure how that later pans out once they are in the big world on their own. That one actually worries me more. My kid is stressed when he gets a B. And since he does have a B I guess it may knock us out of his dream schools.  I better stop typing. It's making me feel worse. I don't want a stressed kid. [/quote]

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