Sound off - Ivy grads & high income earners who chose public schools over privates

[Anonymous]

Our Bethesda public is full or Ivy educated parents and the vase majority of families are high income. That's one data point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our Bethesda public is full or Ivy educated parents and the vase majority of families are high income. That's one data point.

There is no way that your Bethesda public is full of Ivy educated parents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry, I don't believe the most Ivy/HHI people send kids to public. The executives at my company send their kids to elite privates. I don't know their education backgrounds but they definitely meet the HHI threshold. I am a graduate of a big ten school and I send my kids to private. I am not in the target salary range nor target institution for this thread but among my friends the higher their household income, the more likely they are to send their kids to private.

So, you don't even know if the people you're talking about are Ivy grads, but you think they prove that Ivy grads don't send their kids to public. Ok.

Many of the parents at my children's private are HHI earners/ $350K plus. I'm sorry that we don't talk about where we went to school all of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our Bethesda public is full or Ivy educated parents and the vase majority of families are high income. That's one data point.

There is no way that your Bethesda public is full of Ivy educated parents.

Yes it is. There are a lot of us. Sorry to disappoint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our Bethesda public is full or Ivy educated parents and the vase majority of families are high income. That's one data point.

There is no way that your Bethesda public is full of Ivy educated parents.

Yes it is. There are a lot of us. Sorry to disappoint.

NP, but our Bethesda public is NOT full of Ivy leaguers. Maybe PP is at a Super Special Bethesda Public.

[Anonymous]

Top 5 college, top 5 law. Public school product; public school parent. Thank you, America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 college, top 5 law. Public school product; public school parent. Thank you, America.

+1. Ivy, both doctoral degrees, top 0.5% income, G/E over $3M, one of us public, DC goes public.

[Anonymous]

I'm a pp with multiple Ivy degrees and a child in public school. People need to remember that Ivied have very generous financial aid. Many of us grew up working clas or middle class, and have retained those values. We had good public school educations, and want the same for our kids.

[Anonymous]

^^I agree. In addition, I'd say that as a 2 Ivy couple with kids in public, we saw a lot of classmates in college who had attended very expensive privates/boarding schools. Not always such a pretty picture! Sometimes people look at those schools with rose colored glasses. That much affluence or access to the trappings of affluence can be detrimental to young kids (even at the high school level). Many of us know that a good public school will give a motivated, smart kid a great start in life (without all the pitfalls that can come with privates).

[Anonymous]

I don't have the stats, but in my neighborhood (town of chevy chase) most parents send their kids to MCPS, and many of the parents are Ivy-league educated, and certainly in the upper income brackets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One Ivy, both grad degrees, HHI above 800k and GE way above 3, public (in Alexandria City no less). Disappointed by lousy private experiences, happy about public academics, and like the other public families a lot. No regrets whatsoever about yanking from private.

We had our kids in private, too and yanked them. DH and I both went private PK-12. He did grad school at an Ivy. Our HHI is about 450K so we can afford it too but are much happier in public and I agree that the parents and the kids are so much nicer to be around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^I agree. In addition, I'd say that as a 2 Ivy couple with kids in public, we saw a lot of classmates in college who had attended very expensive privates/boarding schools. Not always such a pretty picture! Sometimes people look at those schools with rose colored glasses. That much affluence or access to the trappings of affluence can be detrimental to young kids (even at the high school level). Many of us know that a good public school will give a motivated, smart kid a great start in life (without all the pitfalls that can come with privates). [/quote

I am 19:47 and what you say is so true. I love how you worded it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our Bethesda public is full or Ivy educated parents and the vase majority of families are high income. That's one data point.

There is no way that your Bethesda public is full of Ivy educated parents.

Yes it is. There are a lot of us. Sorry to disappoint.

NP, but our Bethesda public is NOT full of Ivy leaguers. Maybe PP is at a Super Special Bethesda Public.

We'll, we are ivy leaguers at Bethesda public, and we have many friends who are also.

[Anonymous]

My dog finished her training class at the local public rec center. However, her grade was an"incomplete" because she couldn't do one of thr tricks. She has friends who go to private dog camps, but that's because they live in a bad neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^I agree. In addition, I'd say that as a 2 Ivy couple with kids in public, we saw a lot of classmates in college who had attended very expensive privates/boarding schools. Not always such a pretty picture! Sometimes people look at those schools with rose colored glasses. That much affluence or access to the trappings of affluence can be detrimental to young kids (even at the high school level). Many of us know that a good public school will give a motivated, smart kid a great start in life (without all the pitfalls that can come with privates).

17:05 here, and yes, I agree with the bolded part. I went to a high school with similar demographics to Blair. I was quiet, studious, had lots of friends, but we were tame compared to the private and boarding school kids I met at college. They kind of freaked me out. There was so much drinking, drugs, sex, shoplifitng for kicks, depression, alienation from parents. It was a completely different reality from what I had imagined those kids would be like. Obviously not all of them were like that, but a significant number of the blue blood kids were seriously f'ed up.