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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have an accepted offer on a house in the burb. Moment of truth. Pull the ripcord or no?[/quote]

What town?[/quote]

Princeton [/quote]

That's where I grew up and attended public school.  Luckily, there are also good private options.[/quote]

What was your experience? No good?[/quote]

Fine.Support for athletics is non existent.  It won't match your private school experience academically.  The glorifcation of public school education in this thread is crazy.  In reality, it's bureaucratic. Detracking has been an issue --like most public school systems these days, there is buy-in on need for "equity." On the other hand, there are some insane tiger parents and a very stressful high school academic experience.  Student suicides have been an issue for decades, with the train tracks providing an unfortunate lure.  If you don't like it, plenty of private schools nearby.[/quote]

OP here, I truly appreciate you sharing your experiences. I've heard anecdotally that the school district likes to support accelerated students in the "AP crowd" with the better teachers and more resources and the non-AP track kids not so much (this apparently causes some consternation amongst parents). Was this your experience as well? Because of this I had assumed that the education would be fairly comparable in rigor, perhaps more focus on GPA maxxing at PHS, when compared to NYC TTs. I've also heard that culturally there is a bias towards STEM amongst the student body which I saw largely as a positive force for my older one who has lost her interest in science. [/quote]

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