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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's a big difference - at my kids' private the lowest level is at grade level and there are no kids with any learning issues beyond mild adhd or other very mild issues that don't keep them below grade level. At our former public school my kids wanted to go faster but the class had a lot of kids who couldn't and the teachers always had to help a lot of other kids keep up.

There are some real downsides to not having any peers in school who are slow, our private school is extremely competitive and kids who would be average in another setting feel like they're slow or bad students. [b]Also, some of the lifers have had zero life experiences with people with learning or other disabilities and I wonder how they will interact later in the real world.[/b][/quote]

For what it's worth, I was a lifer at my private and did work with kids with disabilities through programs with my schools. As a result, I interact well with anyone who isn't "mainstream" in any sense of the word because I have a lot of empathy and understanding about the learning differences of others. My husband, on the other hand, was public from K-12 and was in a "mixed" classroom where he had to work along with kids with learning disabilities. He hated it because he wasn't challenged, wasn't interested in the subject material, and felt like the time was all spent on those kids and none on the gifted kids who were at the other end of the spectrum. So, at least in our cases, private had the better outcome. And for what it's worth, personality wise, I'm actually the more intolerant, less patient of the two of us generally. [/quote]

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