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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in a wealthy neighborhood with highly ranked public options. Some of my neighbors are wealthy enough that the cost of private school is an afterthought. For some of them, it is generational. They went to private and cannot imagine not doing the same for their kids (I also think they would feel like this would reflect badly upon themselves in their peer groups since many still socialize with their classmates from their privates). One family is very religious. [b]Another very honestly shared that his daughter wouldn’t have stood out at the local high school because of the competition. [/b]She ended up going to an Ivy and they felt the private really helped her with that. [/quote]

Same for my daughter. She is very bright but also soft-spoken and doesn’t  naturally stand out in a crowd. I strongly suspect in public she would have been seated next to the meltdown kids and largely ignored since she is above average but not top 10%. In private she gets attention too.

I am not aiming for Ivy but I have no doubt private is giving her a better education and higher quality of life than public.[/quote]

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