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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if you can comfortably afford private, I would at least look into it and see what your options are.

My kids are now in 6th and 9th and I'm really wishing they had gone to private school. We live in a wealthy neighborhood where most people use public school but there are still a lot of issues with public education and the inability to advance the curriculum for kids who learn more quickly. My kids are too old and don't want to switch schools now, plus where we live there are no good private options within a 20 minute drive. So we try to push them as much as we can, but school is just really easy and boring for them. Its such a disappointment and if I had it to do all over again, I'd probably move somewhere closer to a good private school and buy a less expensive house to make it more affordable. Hindsight is 20/20. [/quote]

Op here. We moved to this school district for the supposedly excellent schools. We live in a multi million dollar home and have spent almost another million on renovations to make it our exact style. The privates we are considering are 20+ min away while we currently live 1-2 miles from our zoned elementary, middle and high school. I feel like we have sunk so much money into this house.[/quote]

Don’t assume private school is a better education.  It really depends on your child and what services can be offered.  Generally, private will be a better education for the average or just above average kid.  But if your child is well above average, often privates don’t have much to offer.  Many times the public school district is able to offer better programs to those kids through gifted programs, partnering with local collages/university, dual enrollment, etc. Those services are usually county wide since no one school has enough kids to utilize them alone. Again- this is very specific to your county, district, child and the actual private schools available.  But from my searching, past putting your kid in the classroom the next grade for math or another subject they don’t offer any special services [/quote]

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