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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Struggling with this decision and would like to hear others’ perspectives. Also worried that since we are in a top rated public district, the people opting for private will be extremely religious families and kids with behavior or social issues, neither of which describes us. [/quote]

As a public school parent at a “good” school who has seen numerous friends pull their kids for private, I’d honestly say most of them have these reasons. Kid was struggling and “needed small class sizes” or had social or mental health issues, or a diagnosis like dyslexia, anxiety or mild autism, etc. I only know 3 kids out of probably 30 who were academically and socially fine. I think those families always planned on private because older siblings were in private after ES or after MS.

I personally think of religious/parochial schools separately from independent schools. There are a few exceptions, but most seem to attract families who want homogeneity with their school community. The schools themselves aren’t usually better than public, just more insular.

I think the wealthy “lifers” who were too good for public in the first place are another group of families you’ll find.

I’ll be the first to say that there are issues in the public schools for sure. But I don’t think your perception is off that privates do attract a good amount of entitled people, kids who require attention and hand holding, and people who wish to be insular and exclude. The whole idea of private school is exclusivity! [/quote]

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