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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]<quote>I might add that I am on the faculty of an Ivy League Univ and we see very little difference between private and public school students in academic performance.</quote>

I couldn't let this one pass. Look, I basically agree that a smart and motivated child with solid parental support can do fine in either setting. I went to public school and a fancy college, and I'm sending my kid to private school for reasons mostly unrelated to academics. But surely as a faculty member at an "Ivy League Univ" you understand sampling bias. You are looking at the kids who got to your college and saying, they seem comparable. Well, yeah. If the school is Dartmouth I bet they disproportionately like to ski, too. But we can't take a group like this and then draw conclusions from it about whether all their HS classmates (not at Ivy League U) received roughly equal educations, and we certainly can't make claims about the education of all the kids whose high schools are not represented at all at your Univ.  [/quote]

As an alum of a "big 3" private school and an Ivy League univ, I can honestly say that I don't see much difference in the success and happiness of friends/colleagues who attended public secondary schools vs those who attended private.  And though I see the PP's point, I'm not only using my Ivy classmates as examples.  I'm not at the point where I need to think about private v public yet, but I'm not at all sold on the idea that private is better. [/quote]

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