<p>My city has several excellent elite high schools that do offer better educations than my suburban public hs. However, quite frankly, I wasn’t interested in the logistics of spending an hour each way getting my kids there and back, and the requisite socializing I’d have to do to fit in with the crowd. My SIL, an at home mother, made that choice because she wanted the social cachet and prestige. Good for her! Just not my thing.</p>