What sized school should I take my child to?

I was recently offered a fully remote job with my employer. (largest hospital system in the state) They completely sold off the building they were using for administrative support, so it doesn't look like it will ever come back to in person.

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My wife has been starting a custom woodworking business out of our tiny garage. She's been getting enough business that she needs a larger space. So we decided its time to move.

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She wants to move to a real small area. Townships the size of the ones both of us grew up in. Less than a few hundred people small. She remembers it much better than me. She was a 4H farmers daughter. There was tons of stuff for her to do with farming, wood classes, cows and chickens to raise, etc.

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I also grew up in a small town like that but I was the nerdy kid playing D&D and figuring out how to use Napster, Kazaa, etc, while wishing my high school had something cool like a basic robotics club, science clubs, or even a chess club. My high school had none of that. I was bored out of my skull. My grades suffered because I just stopped caring. My graduating class had 30 people in it in 2002.

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She wants our now 4 yr old to be able to go to that smaller school, with more individualized attention, small class sizes etc. I would rather see her be able to attend a medium to large school system in a town of 3-8k people. Someplace where we could still get a house with land and a large barn/workshop where she could work.

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4 yr old girl currently likes dance and tumbling classes in a larger city of 20k and a large city 15 min away of 250k. Trying to get at least n hour away from the big city where house prices aren't stupid.

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Which do you think is better for a child? Smaller classrooms in a rural school or medium to larger class sizes with more extra curricular opportunities?

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Submitted August 03, 2023 at 08:12AM by Arthur-reborn https://ift.tt/Lm5Ebx3