I am faced with a similar dilemma. My daughter is a 5th grader currently at a private school in New York City. Prior to that she went to a very good school in England and was far ahead of her classmates when she went to New York.

In my opinion, the American system is better for a general education as the British system starts to specialize at 10th grade and then university entrance is largely determined by success in three or four subjects. Having said that, many of the better British schools are changing to the International Baccalaureate which is more general. If you go that route, it doesn't really matter which system your child goes to. The choice of school is much more important.

I know that Doha Aacademy and DESS are good schools here. I also know from Eviloops and others that AJA is terrible. Here, I think it is the school that is much more important than the system. I don't know what the American school here is like.

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