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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Our arts programs are outstanding because we have a critical mass of students for things like a marching band or high level theatrical production.  [/quote]

I think this is the fundamental big school/small school fight, which isn't really the same as public/private: if you have someone seriously interested and talented in a subject, a big school can be better because you are more likely to have a critical mass of talented kids with whom he can work. But if your kid has multiple interests or a mere modicum of talent, he's never going to be on the stage, not going to be practicing with the basketball team, never going to a science olympiad tournament, not heading to the music festival, because those slots are reserved for the very talented and very determined. There's little room for dilettantes, or jacks-of-all-trades.

Local athletic family members, who managed to scrape their way onto less competitive high school teams at one of our public mega-schools, were always envious of a probably similarly athletic cousin, who played baseball, football, and basketball for his cow town high school. [/quote]

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