Does anyone know what happens if you enrol your kids in a private school, get accepted, then decide to send them public instead? Does it put a black mark on your name if you try to enrol them again later? Like well you said no that time, so we won't offer a place again? Can you defer to a later start date?

I'm tossing up between sending DS to a private school or a public school. The private school seems fantastic. But the public school has the advantages of being a five minute walk from home, much cheaper and still has an excellent reputation. But when I rang to ask if we could go see someone about having a look around etc, they put us until next year. So I don't know if the feel is right. If it isn't, it might be too late to enrol DS at the private school (which have seen and loved) for prep in 2014. The main reasons for choosing the private school would be just that it feels right, has an excellent rep the staff appeared passionate and the students were happy. I'm worried that if we enrol DS in prep at the private school, he might not get in for grade 7.

Does anyone have any experience?