beeswing wrote:

If one can (potentially, maybe) pay for instate, public university education
*OR* private school (especially at the critical middle-school level), how da
heck does one decide, anyway.

I hate to follow up myself, but I want to clarify something. I'm not suggesting
that my daughter wouldn't go to college if we somehow managed to send her to
private school. The issue is who would pay for college -- and how. Right now,
I'm committed to paying her college with the same limitations my dad gave me:
she'd have to stay in state and go to a state-run college. Anything more and
she'd have to make up the difference herself. But private school could blow a
hole in that theory....

beeswing