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Ours will go to public most likely. Private schools are too much money, and we plan in the next few years to move into our ideal public school district

Hopefully he'll get into the local charter school- it's lottery tbough.

If not he'll probably go to public, but there is a nice Montessori elementary too that is more affordable than many other private schools

Maybe private k and public everything else.

I didn't vote because I don't know. Private would honestly be my first choice but it's unlikely. Our neighborhood elementary school is pretty good, but we will try the lottery for middle & high school and if we don't get a magnet school, or move to a different school district, we'll probably try to swing private school at that point.

Our assigned public school is pretty good. It is charter, but it used to be part of the district - that is what is happening to most schools around here. I like those kind of charters a little better because they were already established schools, not brand new or in their early years. The school I work for is also like that. There is a public school nearby, also former district and now charter, that is really great that I might try to get him in to. I like the idea of him walking to school, though.

I would love to send him to private school, but it's hard to justify the cost. If we were suddenly very rich and I didn't have to work full time, but we could still afford private school, we would.

We will likely do private for Kindergarten, due to scheduling ease more than anything else. After that, we’ll do public, although I would also consider non-religiously affiliated private. We don’t really have a lot of charter schools in our area; I would not consider them until/unless they were competitively ranked against the great public schools.

Types of schooling I will never consider:
Religiously-based private
Homeschooling
Online/virtual charter

We chose the suburb we moved to b/c the public schools are so good.

Probably public for elementary and middle school, not sure about high school. We bought in our neighborhood because the lower grades are very good, but I don't really like the zoned high school. We figured that a lot could happen between now and when she's ready for HS, though, so it didn't really factor into where we bought. If we decide not to have another child, private K-12 would be an option, but I don't think we could afford private school for two, long-term.

I personally don't like the charter school concept and don't think many of them do a better job than public, so that's not an option for me. There's a very good Catholic school super close to our house but religiously-affiliated schools are a no-go for DH. And neither of us would consider homeschooling unless DD had a medical condition that made it necessary or something like that.

We wouldn't consider public school until maybe high school. We will homeschool for elementary, and likely middle school.

Public hopefully all the way since we moved to an area with good public schools. My inlaws are big on private school though, so I told my husband we can revisit the situation in 7th grade. I'm hoping to keep her in public though.

I wish public school but the schools in our present area are awful. If we stay in this area our kids will either be homeschooled or some other arrangement.

Private without a doubt. The public schools here are a hot mess.

Public - we have several great public school options near us, something we took into consideration when shopping for a house!

Probably public. We're looking at moving to a district that offers Ib all the way through.

In our families there are people with autism and other special needs, as well as people who fall into the highly gifted range, and ended up skipping up to three grade levels (In the 80s when tested, the definition they used was IQ above 140). If DD falls into one of these categories, and we can afford it, we would consider private.

I'm not wholly against charter, but there are only a couple in our region that I would consider. The rest are very high pressure and test focused, which isn't what I want for DD. The corporate charter movement makes me extremely uncomfortable, which a lot of our local charters are.

Private for DD1. We'll have to see what DD2's needs are before we know what kind of school she'll attend.

Private

@Applesandbananas: Yeah, we're thinking of moving out to the burbs for the schools. The way they do things in JC is just weird.

charter or public up to 5th grade. private for 6th grade and up. The public school system in our city is an absolute joke for junior high and high school. They're absolutely terrible.

Public.

We'll homeschool k-12. We could have the most top-rated public or private schools in the nation down the street, and you still couldn't pay me to send my kids there.