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Reply to "Public versus private - did the private school save you any time or stress?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A boarding school or top country day school, sure. But most privates are lacking in the extra curricular activities, and what they do offer on-site is not comparable to the quality you get off-site at an independent provider of lessons/coaching/whatever. I'm all for getring the free education and using the savings to pay for high quality enrichment outside of school. [/quote] For the upper middle class, the value proposition was there when private schools are $15,000-20,000/yr (and some Catholic schools still are). But as tuition starts to break $60,000 and the college matriculation appears to be a crapshoot regardless of the schools you go to (when you control for ability and not count the donors/legacies and URMs), it just doesn't make a lot of sense anymore. At a certain point, just like stay at home parents, it probably starts to make more sense to invest some of your own time with your kids, you might even get better returns. [/quote]
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