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Not sure, probably public because we will most likely move into a better neighborhood before our children are school age. If not they will go to private.
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This is hard. I went to a local public that wasn't all that great and then got a "scholarship" of sorts to go to a very good private school. I'm glad I got both experiences. DH lived in a small town and just went to local schools his entire early schooling.
Non-Catholic independent private schools are REALLY expensive here in NYC, if you cannot get financial aid. DH has suggested Catholic schools, but I'm not sure if I am completely comfortable with that since we are not Catholic (I know lots of people who weren't Catholic and went to Catholic schools, so I know it's done). I think we will just cross this bridge when we come to it.
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We live in a really bad school district now, so if we don't move before future babies are old enough for school, we'll probably start out at the Montessori a few minutes away. But, something would need to have gone horrible wrong us not to follow our plant to move in ~3 years - job loss, house losing significant value, etc.
I can't imagine us being in our townhouse indeterminately, so ultimately I'm pretty sure we'll move to a good district and our kids will go to public school. I went to public school all my life except for pre-school/kindergarten, and I think it's fine. DH grew up in the city of Boston and had to go to magnet/charter/private schools and I don't think he got as good an education as I did. He even went to a fairly prestigious private high school and there are some serious gaps in his knowledge that I'm always amazed by.
As an example, he and another friend of ours who went to the same HS were one day contemplating whether they needed to worry about getting HIV from mosquitos. *rolls eyes*.
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