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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is absolutely no accountability to public school parents -- zero.  Private schools have to be accountable or parents will move to other schools.  [/quote]

Yeah, it's certainly not like public school parents have any say in where their kid goes to school[/quote]

I don’t know if this is sarcasm. The overwhelming majority of total enrollment in the U.S. is in public. Most parents cannot pay private tuition, I’m not saying that to be mean but that’s the reality. Parents are stuck with their local public option in most cases and have to make the most of it. [/quote]

This is an NYC discussion and in NYC you have a *ton* of choices in public school[/quote]

And the property taxes to pay for some of the good school districts are  very high.  Some public districts are spending 40 grand or more per student per year in their public schools.   Being stuck with the public school is exactly what the families in a lot of these towns are looking for. It's the entire reason they go to these towns.  The quality of the public school controls the real estate market.[/quote]  but purely based on the outcomes, stress for students, etc - does not seem worth it.

personally much rather have DC go to a 2/3T school, be better on the mental health and go to WashU/Emory/NYU versus grinding it out with GPA, ECs, travel sports and if lucky get a top 25 school.

that's worth $500k or whatever MS/HS cost in NYC.[/quote]

Sure. Lots of wealthy people choose to go to private schools, even in the suburbs for a variety of reasons.

I was just pointing out that there's a lot high income families in some of these top school public districts in the suburbs of New York City.   The real estate and the taxes are very expensive and even though they are public school districts, they're basically segregated from lower income families in many cases.[/quote]

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