Your children are very young. I can't speak in that regard. However, I will say that in the 7th grade, I pulled Meghan from public school after she was beat up by a gaggle of nineth grade girls & boys. She had mouthed off to them, nothing that warranted a physical attack. She was at Sunset Junior High at the time. I was livid. Joe was staying in SLC a couple days while taking the legal bar and avoid all stressors of traffic and home for a couple days. I made the executive decision of pulling her from school afterwa\rds with principal & VP. I demanded to receive my daughter home after school in the same condition as I sent her, not bruised and beaten. For a week, I searched for a private school, then enrolled her at St. Paul's Lutheran . . which only ran through 8th grade. In the 9th frade, I sent her to St. Joseph's High school. I had no problem with the school, whatsoever. However, I learned in hind site (sadly), than many of the brite students were there because they had been in trouble in public school (fighting, drugs, disciplin, etc). They all looked so clean-cut and sharp in their uniforms. Who knew? Meg got tied up with a pretty girl who provided her with her first opportunity to smoke pot. Meghan soon began cutting, just as Rachel had been doing for several years. Meghan was in therapy for many years, for all the good it did (none). And on every antidepressant on the market at one time or another. They all made her more depressed and suicidal, for which she had a few hospitalizations. Now I believe she was never properly diagnosed . . . probably bi-polar. Somehow she dropped through the cracks . . it was missed by psychologists and psychiatrists, worst of all by her Mother. So to answer your question, my experience with private school was not good. Perhaps all of this would have happened regardless. I'll never know. In the ninth grade Meghan was selected as a cheerleader -- she was beautiful and an excellent gymnist. However, her GPA fell .5 below ninimum requirement. I begged St. Joseph's to allow her to somehow makeup the grade and fill the position. They refused. Woulda, shoulda, coulda . . . Well, you know the rest.