回复：这两家又不是世交，用得着四处打听调研吗？点头之交，你当妈的这样说，人凭什么要觉得你在说假话？谁小心眼，不是你我说了算。

Thanks, everybody. Our neighbor's kid goes to a private school, our kid goes to public school. I can tell our neighbor pay lot of attention to their kid's education since the public school here is excellent.

I feel the misunderstanding is mainly due to culture gap. It probably won't happen if they are Chinese too.