I hope I don't offend anyone, but I don't know where else to go with this question.
Some Background: In our city, none of the public schools will allow early entrance to Kdgn under any circumstances. However, if a student attends a private Kdgn, he/she can transfer to a public school as a first grader the following year.
DH and I always believed in public schools, but had a terrible experience with our ODD, who is HG. The public school had a rough time meeting her needs and refused to grade skip. Now our YDD barely misses the Kdgn. cutoff and is HG. It seems the logical way for us to avoid (at least in the short term) major school issues for YDD is early K entrance.
However, all of the private schools are very pricey.... So, can you tell I'm nervous about asking my question?...
We do not attend church regularly and would consider ourselves Unitarian. However, it would be a fraction of the cost to send YDD to a Lutheran school nearby. Has anyone done something similar? Do you feel like second-class citizens since you don't "belong" to the church? Is this a crazy thing to consider?
