Short answer - nope, wouldn't go into debt.

it just shows what a student with passion can achieve regardless of their school.
Agree that students can excel perfectly well in the public system. Yes shop around for a suitable school, but you'd do that even in private wouldn't you? Just handing over dollars doesn't ensure a good education.

Can you really line up a row of doctors and tell which ones were privately educated? In DH's industry, can you really tell the ones that flunked their HSC twice!! and those that are uni grads? (well you can actually... uni grads are pretty clueless in the real world LOL). I'll leave it there, or I'll start sounding anti-education, which I'm not LOL.. we just don't see it as the be all and end all, and so no, wouldn't fork out $$$ for it