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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your family can afford private school but you opt-in to public school, why?

As you can guess from the question, we can afford private but for a variety of complicated reasons decided to go public. A big one of which was that we went to public school ourselves and turned out fine. I now find myself continually second-guessing myself with a bit of a “grass is greener” perspective. I feel like if I can afford private I should, and that I need to justify the decision to myself to continue to go public.

Would be helpful to hear from other people in a similar situation.

(I hope this question doesn’t come off the wrong way. I know these boards get hella judgy and hopefully you didn’t read the title and get mad thinking someone was judging people who choose to go to public school. I also recognize we are in a good situation to be able to have the choice, and that my consternation about it is a luxury problem.)[/quote]

So far public has been a fit.

We both went to very good public schools and turned out very well, even if we do say so ourselves.

We have friends with children in the local privates and they really love them for their children.  Some of them needed a smaller school population and other aspects that particular privates can offer. One family has a child who has gone through public but will be doing private for high school, and another who has done private from k-7 and is considering public for high school (we are in one of the top pyramids).

I'm glad to live in an area where we don't have to go private because the public schools are "avoid at any cost".  I went to a small private school for college after a large public high school and I see the appeal of both environments.[/quote]

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