re: Raising kids: Public vs Private

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I think it all has to do with the type of people you want your kids to associate with later in life. My wife has many friends from school that are doctors, lawyers, business owners, etc. Most of mine are kind of trashy.

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Again, it really has to do with where you are. In Louisiana sure, I believe that. But there are many places that are nice to live that have great public schools. For what private middle school and HS costs you could cash flow most public HS and afford a down payment for a house for your kids. I've been to a private HS for a year, I agree with what you said. But my point is that's not the only place that can be found.

Of my close HS friends in the public school I graduated, I think I'm the only one without a masters and I have 6-8 HS friends that are are engineers with at least masters, a couple lawyers, and a couple of military officers. I was in IB (AP style classes) with 60ish other kids in my class but my HS was 2,000+

Again, the blind statement of private is better is simply wrong. My town has a small private HS, and anytime I meet those kids they are all over sheltered or super religious (nothing wrong there) because the public HS is very good so the only parents sending kids there are reaching for a reason.