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Public!
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Private. The schools where we live suck (although I'm not sure where we'll be living for sure) and grandma has offered to pay for the first kid so even though I HATE having that over my head, it's what's likely to be best for dd. her preschool is part of a school that goes to 8th grade so it's possible she will stay there. We could possibly afford that on our own.
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Public, especially for K-8. We may consider a private high school but we will see.
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Public.
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We home school. LO is in K now, and I think we'll very likely continue on this route through high school.
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A mix of public and home school. It's what we're doing now, and we're planning to continue. Our public schools are pretty good, but they can't always meet DS1's needs. So, we send work, books, and assignments weekly to support what the classroom teacher is trying to do. Sometimes this is in addition to what the has been assigned, sometimes it is in lieu of what has been assigned.
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@BandDmommy: Public is sometimes best for gifted/extremely gifted kids, depending on your state. Most private schools in my state (Georgia) do not provide any services for gifted kids. They can actually lose their accreditation for providing services that are typical in GA public schools.
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@tlynne: Ooh, interesting! Is this for elementary school? Would you mind telling me how that works? Do you only have him there for part of the day and then the rest of the day you do things at home? And if you're changing the school assignments, how does that work? I sort of figured that if I wanted to do my own thing, I would have to just do it, you know?
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@honeybear: Cool! Do you follow a curriculum from your state? I am interested big time.
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@Greentea: I'll get back to you in a bit.
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public. we paid a hefty premium for our home because it's in a good school district.
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@tlynne: that's sadly true. The only reason we can send our HG kid to private and know her needs will be met, is that we have a local private gifted school. The public schools here haven't really figured out a good GT solution yet, and convolute it with high-achieving.
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Mostly public, but will likely do private for DD for her primary years (K-1 or K-2). Her bday is less than a week before the cut off but at this point, we'd like her to start "early" and most public schools around here will not make exceptions.
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Private
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Private, Catholic.
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Public school. I'm not sure where we'll be when DD is school aged, but we will definitely buy in a good school district. The schools where we are now are great.
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I did Catholic K-8 and Catholic College, Hubby did Catholic K-12.... Catholic schools is just in the cards for our kiddos.
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Public but also other? We're hoping to get her into the gifted magnet school run by our city's public school district. We live in one of the county de-seg districts.
If not... well, I guess we rethink our options. I don't want to send her to the public schools where we currently live. Homeschooling is a total no for us, though.
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DD is currently in public. Not 100% on what will happen. Might switch to home school. Idk. I have another year of this very small public school and then I decide to send my kids to a bigger school or home school them.
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@erinpye: they really do get high achievers and gifted confused...but we have no schools for the gifted within 50 miles. We have to utilize online programs, like Davidson and Duke TIP to really challenge some kids. My family is also grateful that we get to choose their children's school in our county...this makes a huge difference in how DS is served
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@tlynne: Davidson is a good resource at least. Some parents have said MENSA actually is as well because they do a lot of local events for kids. Especially for the many that homeschool.
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I struggle with this a lot. If I'm still teaching where I am, she will likely come with me. I teach in an excellent charter (consistently ranked as excellent by the state) and love the philosophy of the school. I also love my admin and our students do really well.
On the other hand I struggle with how much work our kids do (not just my school but public and charters in general). And then the state testing, which is totally too much and completely inappropriate for kids. For that reason I'm toying with relaxed homeschooling or montessori.
DH is HG. He has a lot of HG/PG family members. If DD ended up in that category we'd likely move into a particular school district. It's technically to early to tell (14 months) but I honestly doubt she is, based on what I've seen..
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Public, absolutely. Private school isn't in the budget and isn't what we would want anyway. Our district is one of the highest ranked in the state, we've heard great things about it, and it was a major factor in moving here.
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@tlynne: agree re: gifted. It's also often true for any sort of special need. Many private schools don't have the resources public schools do, even though that seems (and sounds, since they charge up the wall) counter intuitive.
Public for us - we're huge proponents of public school. Maybe private K, for our convenience, not because I think it's educationally better. Homeschooling is a big no for us.
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Torn between public and private. I'd LOVE to send her to a bilingual school but they're all really inconvenient to where we live so it's likely out. Our neighborhood schools are very good but I'm very much against the amount of standardized testing in public school, which is one of the main reasons we might go for private school. The other would be if she seems really ready for school but can't go due to missing the cutoff by a couple months (it's very early in our district and she is an early December baby). It's really only a debate if we decide to be one and done though, since we could never afford private school tuition plus daycare and later double private school tuition (I wouldn't want them at different schools).
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Public
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Charter if we get lucky. Then private (our bank account will not be lucky. Nyc metro area).
Public as a last resort. They are terrible here. Which is ironic because we literally live 25 feet from our zoned one. -
Public. My sister and DH are public elementary school teachers (and I used to be). My sister teaches kindergarten at the school in our district, so that's likely where our kids will go.
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We're still undecided. Public for now...but possibly private in a few years.
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Probably catholic for at least k-8. I went to catholic from PS - 12 but DH went to public. So we're still discussing. We have about 3 more years to decide.
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It depends on where we are living in a few years. If we continue to stay where we are, in the heart of a big city, we will choose private Catholic school. If we move to the suburbs, it will be public school.
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I voted undecided because we are torn whether to send DD to the local (excellent) public school or the private gifted school (to be IQ tested in January). We're generally big believers in public education and hadn't seriously considered private until it became apparent she has certain academic needs that may not be met in public school. Her preschool teacher is concerned that she will be bored and start to act out in a regular ed classroom, but she's not socially/emotionally mature enough to skip a grade. It's frustrating because we purposefully bought a house in this district because of its stellar reputation, and now it may not matter and would increase our drive time to the private school. Unfortunately the public district's G&T program doesn't begin until 3rd grade and we're afraid she'll have tuned out educationally by then if she's not challenged. She's a little awkward and I'm worried that she'll have a hard time fitting in or she'll tamp down her intellectual interests in order to try to fit in (which, bless her dorky little heart probably will never happen anyway).
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Financially, Private is not going to be an option for us, unless she were to attend the school I teach at. But that won't happen. I am one of three Christian teachers in a Muslim school. While I think it would be awesome for her to learn about the culture, and even the language, I have issues with her learning the religion at a young age. I don't want her confused. Maybe when she's older and she's been going to Sunday school longer and understands better how WE see the world we'd consider it.
However, we have TWO public school options in our city! Technically it's the same school board, but we can put her in the regular English Program, or in the early French Immersion, which is what I'm leaning towards.
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We moved to our town for the schools, so Public.
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public for sure, barring any extreme circumstances related to safety.
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Private K-12. She starts at the early childhood center part time in January
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Public as of Kindergarten. The town we are moving to has wonderful and the high school is nationally ranked.
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Public. We also moved to our town for the schools.
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