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@erinpye: I get you but I'll put it like this - when I went to public primary school the vast majority of non-english speaking migrants were greek, macedonian, italian, vietnamese & turkish. fast forward 25+ years, the demographic has changed dramatically.
the largest majority of non-english speaking migrants in this area are of middle eastern background. quite a few of my friends have kids who go to schools in the local area and they find that the interaction between muslim/non muslim kids can be a big sticking point. Growing up my best friend was Turkish (i'm Greek) and interaction outside of school was seriously limited when it came to play dates, birthday parties etc. I'm not saying this is always the case, but at the end of the day your kids are going to be friends with whoever you send them to school with and sometimes it helps if they have more in common than not.

We are definitely sending kids to public, that is the primary reason we chose the town we moved to, great schools. But, like someone else said, depending on situations, one of our sons may want (or need) private school when they are older, and there are quite a few private schools I'm our area.

@regberadaisy: I mean that is Australian dollars but in the end it's not that different!!