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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think kids generally at elementary age are so impressionable that you really want them in the best environment.  I'd rather choose to teach my kids how to avoid "snobs" than hooligans.

[b]I've also found that my peers who have kids in private schools are more involved in their kids education than my friends with kids in public school.   This behavior filters down to the kids too generally speaking[/b].

As a PP mentioned though sending kids to private school involves trade-offs.  I wouldn't trade sending my kids to private school if we would be broke all of the time.  However we would definitely choose private school over most luxuries (redone kitchen, luxury cars, eating out, cleaning services, mcmansion etc). [/quote]

Yes, this, a thousand times over.

We were at an Alexandria City public that has quite a few upper middle class families, SAHMs, well educated themselves but the lack of interest in anything related to actual education, teacher quality, curriculum quality was really sad to me.  One mom was praising my child for being at the top of her class in Math and when my child was out of ear shot, I said "you realize that my child is basically just a little bit above grade level in Math and that all the other kids are behind grade level. She really isn't advanced, it's just all the other students are behind and haven't made it even to grade level average".  It shocked me that she was so unaware of the basic curriculum and what children should be learning at a certain grade.   We are way too type A about ensuring our child has the best education possible.  [/quote]

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