Parents have to evaluate the schools available to them. My daughter went to a public school that is better than the expensive private school I went to. More AP courses, more merit scholars, more national science competition winners.
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I would agree with you in your post #270...parents do have to evaluate the schools where their children will go to school....we moved around a bit, because my husband was in the military..sometimes depending on where we lived, I had the boys in private school...at other times, they went to public school...
My younger boy finished up in public school...because it was, academically a very fine school...their physics dept and their computer studies were very highly ranked...and these were the two areas my son was most interested in...he also took all the AP courses, passed the tests, and was able to just about skip all the freshmen courses once in college, because of the AP courses in a public high school...this was great, considering that his major(physics applied engineering), was really a difficult major, and being able to get those freshmen courses out of the way, while still in high school, was a great advantage...
I would agree with your basic point, ,that one must be diligent, and evaluate each and every school before sending your child there...