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A post by Katharine Mieszkowski:
A decade ago, going public meant frothy tech IPOs. Now, it's what
private school kids do when their parents can no longer pay their
tuition. Private school enrollments are down everywhere, from Washington D.C. to Tennessee to California, while requests for financial aid are up. Yet recessionary budget cuts have hit many public schools hard, forcing them to lay off teachers (which increases class size), scale back instruction in art, music and theater, and even shorten the school year. Given the cutbacks, public school parents who can afford it may consider sending their kids to private schools.
Are you thinking of transferring your child from private school to
public? Or from public to private? Have you already done so recently?
Why? ...(Read more in DoubleX.)
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