Public versus private. It's an age-old debate in these parts, but today parents all over the Hub are reexamining their long-held assumptions about what's best for their kids. Here's an inside look at what students and their parents had to say.

Photographs by Blake Fitch

Christina Lamb with daughter Olivia, junior at Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough

Why we chose public school: "I think Algonquin is a very, very good school. What I said to my daughter was that I was willing to go through the private school process with her, but basically it had to be worth $100,000 more than Algonquin, because that's what it was going to cost."