ElizabethT
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My sister lives in Danville. They have a nice house worth, I don't really know, maybe 1.5mil. She made the decision to send her kids to private school. Both her boys went to college and one has a PhD in physics and is now doing a postdoc at Stanford, the younger one is doing a PhD at Rice University.
I stand by my earlier statement, I would send any kids to private school today. Even the best of the public schools just aren't what they used to be.
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This was not our experience. We selected our California city carefully, based primarily on its public school ranking, and its method of determining who has access to Honors and AP courses. These courses allow motivated students to find each other and engage in a very demanding learning environment that leaves them well prepared for college. I can point to former classmate after classmate of my children that went to top tier universities, then on to highly paying professions as a result. My own children as well. Both qualified for, and attended top tier universities based on their public school performance, moved on to graduate degrees, and now have well paying careers.