National Merit Semifinalists 2024

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the confirmation that private school parents have no problem with elitism and consider themselves superior. It's funny, because I had pressured my child to go private, but I'm glad he had more sense than me.

You think elitism and snobbery is exclusive to private school parents?

I think that if this statement:

"I’m more impressed with kids who are both smart and rich (a genetic and socioeconomic lottery winner). But good for the striving Blair students. Maybe their children will be both smart and rich private school students too. Each generation should do better than the last."

was made in this forum and no one here disagreed with it enough to say so, then elitism and snobbery are so rampant in private schools that they are best avoided by people who have any desire for their children to be good people.

That statement honestly changed my mind about the nature of private school parents. And that is said by someone who has both taught at multiple private schools, attended a private college, and encouraged my children to attend private schools for high school.

I remember that statement and posting a critical response. You can go back and look it up.

If you’ve been exposed to privates as much as you say you have, that statement should not have surprised you.