We are moving to the area from the midwest due to my wife's job. We have a 14 year old daughter and a ten year old son. They are both excellent strikers and have always dominated on every level. Do you recommend public high school or a prep school. We are looking for the path that would ultimately get them to the highest level. Soccer will be a major factor when we decide where to purchase a home. Can you guide us to the cities or prep schools that will most likely aid them in reaching their goals? I heard this is a great forum for advice and am looking forward to some great feedback.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWe are moving to the area from the midwest due to my wife's job. We have a 14 year old daughter and a ten year old son. They are both excellent strikers and have always dominated on every level. Do you recommend public high school or a prep school. We are looking for the path that would ultimately get them to the highest level. Soccer will be a major factor when we decide where to purchase a home. Can you guide us to the cities or prep schools that will most likely aid them in reaching their goals? I heard this is a great forum for advice and am looking forward to some great feedback.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWe are moving to the area from the midwest due to my wife's job. We have a 14 year old daughter and a ten year old son. They are both excellent strikers and have always dominated on every level. Do you recommend public high school or a prep school. We are looking for the path that would ultimately get them to the highest level. Soccer will be a major factor when we decide where to purchase a home. Can you guide us to the cities or prep schools that will most likely aid them in reaching their goals? I heard this is a great forum for advice and am looking forward to some great feedback.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostPrep all the way. Soccer is waaaaaaay better and if you want your child to be prepared for success at the top universities preps are basically the only places that teach them both how to think and the tricks of being a highly effective student. Around here there is no such thing as a free education. The towns with very good public schools have sky high real estate prices and sky high real estate taxes and in the end what their public schools offer is still not as good as a prep. Save your money by moving to a town with reasonable prices and a low real estate tax rate. They normally have awful schools but you won't need them so why bother paying for them. That will give you something left over to pay for a real education.
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I think you've come to the right place. I make all important life decisions (where I live, where my kids go to school, even my employment) based on TS feedback.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostWe are moving to the area from the midwest due to my wife's job. We have a 14 year old daughter and a ten year old son. They are both excellent strikers and have always dominated on every level. Do you recommend public high school or a prep school. We are looking for the path that would ultimately get them to the highest level. Soccer will be a major factor when we decide where to purchase a home. Can you guide us to the cities or prep schools that will most likely aid them in reaching their goals? I heard this is a great forum for advice and am looking forward to some great feedback.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostI think you've come to the right place. I make all important life decisions (where I live, where my kids go to school, even my employment) based on TS feedback.
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In the good public-school leagues, the soccer is as good as the better private-school league. All or nearly all the starting players on the leading Bay State Conference or Dual County League or ISL teams play club soccer as well as school. You will not find all the D1 college players from this area, for example, all went public or all went prep. So it's a mix.
Also, there's not one school or town that always has the best team. It varies with the luck of having a concentration of good players in a given year and locality. The big high schools, like Acton-Boxborough and Lincoln-Sudbury, more often have contending teams than the smaller schools. You might pay attention to choosing a school that plays in the big-schools tournament, as generally speaking, they will face the toughest competition. Both public and prep have championship tournaments that separate the schools by enrollment.
Only you can weigh the financial part. A median-value home in the more costly localities could run you $10-15 k/year in property taxes, the majority of which goes to the school budget. If you reduce that by $5 k/year by living in a different location, then add the cost of private school, you then decide if that's worthwhile.
Prep schools obviously have a very high proportion of their students attend college, maybe 100%. Some public schools have almost that high a proportion attend college as well. The publics seem to not allocate as high a proportion of their resources to college guidance, so you should also weigh whether you and your student can handle that on your own, or add some amount on the public side of the ledger if you think you'll want to pay extra for that.
It's different for everyone, not one "best" way.
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