What are the common mistakes parents make when choosing an elementary school?

What are the common mistakes parents make when choosing an elementary school?

When parents pick elementary schools, I think there's two big mistakes that they make. And one is enrolling their child in the school that everyone's enrolling their child into, without kind of thinking, again, 'is this a good match for my child? Is it a good fit? Is it, is it, is it overrated? Is it, is it a school that everyone's just so excited about and everyone'sso excited to get into but it really may not be as good as it sounds?' So that's one thing. I think the other mistake is that parents don't go and investigate the school. They go by test scores, which sometimes can tell you a lot and sometimes don't tell you as much, or they go by student-teacher ratio, or they go by again, what all of their friends say, and the best way to figure out a school is to go in there, get in there and check it out and see what your gut tells you. And, I, the parents that I talk to who actually do go and do that usually seem to be the most happy with their choice in the end. If for no other reason that that they know what the alternatives are and they, they don't have to constantly keep second-guessing themselves, thinking 'oh, maybe I should have chosen that one, maybe I should have chosen that one.'