We knew public schools were not going to be a good fit for DS very early on. He was too academically advanced and got very frustrated not being able to have the space to explore creatively. So we put him in a private school thinking it would be smaller classes (it was) resulting with a better social experience (debatable), higher academic challenge (haha), and more a stronger parental voice as we were paying for the school (greatly disillusioned on that one).
heh - it's like you're living in my head, Portia! that's been our year, in a nutshell.
and these are all so great - keep em coming!
