Around our way there are lots of private schools so the public schools tend to be where those kids who have been asked to leave end up!
DH and I want to give our kids access to the best opportunities we can so will be sending them private in secondary and taking $$ out of the house if necessary to fund it. Luckily we have an awesome public primary school and really happy there so far.

Santosha - go and see one of Kathy Walker's talks - I really enjoyed her approach!