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[quote=Anonymous]You aren’t going to get actionable feedback here, OP, because this is really a question about the specific schools in question. My kids went to public elementary, public middle, private middle, and private HS. Overall the educational quality of the private schools was markedly better, but that’s just the specific school experience my kids had. I think sending my kids to private has been one of the best parenting decisions I’ve ever made, but there are also parents who feel that moving their kids to public was one of the best parenting decisions they’ve made. It is super dependent on the kids and schools involved.

With that background, here are the negatives to private that we found aside from the eye-watering tuition cost:

Geographically diverse. It is hard having kids miles away from each other. I miss the neighborhood feel of the public schools. Even in middle school and high school, this matters.

Lack of socioeconomic diversity. There is plenty of racial and gender diversity, but less socioeconomic diversity. There is generous financial aid at the school, but that tends to be reserved for kids who are absolute rock stars. The school has very competitive admissions and anyone who makes it through the admissions gauntlet is good, but the kids who are receiving scholarships tend to be exceptional.

For my kid with dyslexia, it’s mostly been a better experience, but while the school does very well at supports, we don’t have access to the on-site dyslexia specialist we had at the public school (on the other hand, my kid isn’t suffering any more under the tenure-protected teacher who routinely mocked his writing in front of the entire class).

It’s very hard to get As at the high school and I worry about what that will do at college admissions time.

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