if money were no issue.....

We can afford to send Archie to a private school and quite like the idea os him possibly being in a smaller class and getting more one on one time with teachers. however ther are only 2 private schools in our town, one is Catholic and one is Lutheran. i was raised Catholic but in the last 10 years have really gone a different way and now dont feel religious at all, Archie has not been baptised and has never been inside a church. DH was baptised Presbyterian (sp?) but has no idea what that religion is about and nor do i. So my dilemma is that i dont really feel comfortable with the idea of Archie going to a school where everything is strongly focused around a particular religion.

i don't feel comfortable with sending him to a public school here either. We are zoned to 2 schools, one of which is in an extremely 'bad' area and is notoriuous for bullies (both kids and parents) etc, so there is absolutely no way we would send him to that school we would sooner move house than send him there. The other public school is HUGE, the classrooms are filled to brim with kids and the school is constantly getting even more huge due to the great numbers of new houses being built in our area, so i feel uncomfortable with the idea of sending my little boy to a great big scarey school, and i also figure the class numbers would be right up there...

i think my perfect school would be a small public school, and i think im gonna fight to get him into one of them.....

schooling is such a huge decision though!

i agree with dachlostar that money spent on private schooling would be much better spent on travelling which could teach the child more in a couple of weeks than a years schooling could!