beeswing wrote in :

I posted this question in the financial aid thread, but I'd really like to
discuss it further. Could anyone please give me some input on this?

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. Either? Both, with the hope
of a windfall? What makes the biggest difference to the character of a
growing girl?

My daughter is almost 9, and she's an only. My only experience with
"middle school" is having gone to public junior high myself. And I
remember those years as being fairly miserable, though it wasn't all
attributable to school-related issues. I'd like my daughter to have a
better experience than I did.

I'm not quite sure which age is "middle school" - is it 6 -8 grades?
which makes it 11 - 14yo?

I think if I had the choice of a school that would really suit
my 11-14 yo, or (a not-good-match school and really good college),
I think I would choose the good-fit school.

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Penny Gaines
UK mum to three