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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The private school obsession of Americans lol. Your child will be okay in public school lol. They can get into a top 10 college don't worry. My twins went to Publix school and they are both at Stanford. Now of course you will agree all private schools are not created equal. That's true, ours wasn't the best. But I was my kids tutor and it worked out for us.

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The easiest way to get into the Ivy is from a low performing rural school where you are tutored by your educated mother. You hardly invented that.

There are a lot of other factors including your own child’s happiness — I was in a rural high school and hated every minute of it. [/quote]

The environment matters.

In private school DD was surrounded by kids who wanted to do well, wanted to get into good schools, had wordly and well educated parents.

In providing getting anything less than A was considered a failure.

In public DD is surrounded by kids who aim to get a 3 on AP exam and whose main focus is curling hair and dating and they are pressuring her into dating.

Ironically, the teachers in public are much better, but the spend the bulk of time on catering to the weak students.

So unless you lock your kid up in the room and tighter parent them, the will be the product of their environment.[/quote]

The cream rises to the top. Our HS is 40% Farms/Low income but the bright ambitious kids all congregate together and challenge themselves. They get mostly 5's on their numerous APs and send tons of kids to excellent colleges every year.

Private school might be a better choice if your child is lazy and unambitious and likely to fall in with the wrong crowd. But the smart, focuses kids do very well in public schools. [/quote]

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