re: Raising kids: Public vs Private

Yeah, I should have mentioned that. They have done that for her. Right now it's only a mentoring type program she and her teacher came up with where she tutors her classmates. This was mostly her idea. She really enjoys that. She's also in the gifted program.

Thanks for your input. It certainly gave me a different perspective. I've always been anti-private school, mainly because of the insulation from everyday folks they usually promote. I went to a predominantly black public high school, and highly value the learning I gained from dealing with a completely different race and culture than the one I was raised in. I'd hate to deprive my kids of that, though our high school is predominantly white. It is still more diverse than the private school we'd send her to if we made that decision.