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Most likely public, though I'm hoping he'll test into the ones with magnet programs.
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Not sure....I'm considering homeschooling but I really don't know yet.
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We've always known that we would homeschool. We'll be doing classical education, using The Well-Trained Mind as a guide: http://www.amazon.com/The-Well-Trained-Mind-Classical-Education/dp/0393067084/
My DH was homeschooled and thrived with it. I wish I had been!
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Public school, unless we win the lottery. I'm not happy about it, because my own experience with NYC public school wasn't the best, and because we have a 65% graduation rate or so... that's one-third of students dropping out. Hopefully we'll at least move to a good school district in a few years.
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It depends on where we live and what our options are. If we stay where we currently live, I would prefer public or charter for elementary and to wait and see for middle and high school.
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Public, having DD in a diverse classroom is very important to me and private schools around here do not offer that.
She will go to an English school but in a French Immersion program
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There's a k-12 educational research school tied to the local state university in town I would LOVE to get LO into, but it is a lottery system so who knows. Our favorite neighborhood and where we bought our house last year is in a terrible district, but we knew that and school choice will be in our favor. We feel pretty strongly about sending her to public school so all our potential plans have that in common.
DH and I grew up in gifted programs through public schools and we have some here, so those may be an option for her. And I recently have been scheming on sending her to the better (but not best) public elementary that is walking distance from her current home daycare house! Then should we have LO #2 at the same daycare, morning drop off would be a breeze and she could go there for after school care with a lady who just adores her. Who knows what will be the best fit in a few years. Having a lot of options makes me feel better about not knowing though
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If we stay in our current town, I am pretty sure we will do catholic school k-12. I always thought I would do public but I have a hard time thinking if LO in the underfunded school system here. We are planning to buy a bigger home in a year and may consider some of the better districts, but they are less convenient for other reasons. We will have to see how it shakes out.
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@Mrs. Pen: oh, for sure time flies! I'm just pretty sure that by the time LO is ready for high school, the zoning here will be very different (they're already talking about changing which middle schools feed into which high schools based on shifting neighborhood needs). So we bought our house based on elementary/middle schools because at least they're somewhat predictable!
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Public. We will likely enter her in the lottery for the charter high school where I work (and DH graduated from) but that is a REALLY long way off and will depend on what kind of student she is or what she is interested in. We also have school choice here, so she could really attend any school we wanted her to assuming that we could get her there. That may be something that we look into as well since I work in a different town that we live in. I am not worrying about it yet, really.
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I voted public but we will apply for the lottery to get into the local globally focused magnet school for elementary/middle school.
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Public. We live in a great district
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Public school, our current school district is decent but we should be moving in the next couple years and school district will play a big roll in where we buy.
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We are so undecided and will see how LO does in school...we do not live in a great district unfortunately
We are thinking Montessori pre-K through 3rd grade and then public school for the rest of elementary and middle school. Then private high school
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Public for elementary. We'll reevaluate after that.
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@matador84: this is our plan too!
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Private Islamic school. They have an early development center starting at 2.5, so he'll start there.
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We have a couple of really interesting options near us, one of them being a charter school that follows the International Baccalaureate program, which closely algins to how our son would be taught if he attended school abroad. So, I'll enter him in the lottery for that. It goes from K through 8th.
If we don't get into that, he'll go to the elementary school down the street OR he will continue at the location where he is enrolled for preschool. We'll see.
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Goddard pre-school, Public k-12. We have great school systems in our tri-county area, so even when we move, we'll stick to public!
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Pre-school: not sure. There's a KLS and montessori nearby along with traditional Pre-school like I attended which feature bilingual classes, and lots of music education.
Public school: we were able to maximize programs to get a decent education. The only thing we see public school misses out on than say private is access and exposure to the elite. One of my customer's kids went to Don Shula's house for an end of the year party. The child attends private school with Shula's grandson.
I could see starting in public and switching to private for junior hs/ hs.
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We kept in mind about the school district when we were looking for a place to call home, so we feel good about putting our kid(s) in public school where we are! Plus, we can't really afford any other option anyway!
There are tons of daycares & pre-school around so I'm hoping we can afford to put our LO into one around 2 yrs?
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Public all the way until he graduates HS!
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This is a really hot-button issue in my city because our public school system is abysmal. They are working through several options to change it, including going to an all-lottery or heavily-charter-based system. There are some great charter schools, but acceptance is on a lottery system, so you really roll the dice unless you are in-boundary for one of the very few good public elementary schools. After elementary, it's an even bigger mess.
Most of my city-swelling friends are sticking it out in the city and hoping that (1) the school system will improve under the new plan, and (2) they will get a good charter slot.
I went to public school until law school and while my experience wasn't the greatest, DH and I are both big believers in public education. We're also cheap.
One of the very best public school systems in the country borders our city, so we are currently looking to buy a house in the 'burbs. I am actually a pretty laid back parent, but I refuse to gamble on my childrens' education. Education is everything to my mind.We always planned to move out of the city - we want a yard, more quiet, fewer neighbors, etc. - but the school system is really the main reason we will move.
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Private or public. I went to Catholic schools and I would have a hard time putting my kid through that.
One of the very best public school systems in the country borders our city, so we are currently looking to buy a house in the 'burbs. I am actually a pretty laid back parent, but I refuse to gamble on my childrens' education. Education is everything to my mind.
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