Private schools are indefensible

[Anonymous]

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How is it more honest to move out to a pricey suburb with high-quality schools? Please explain.

Whataboutism at its finest.

I hear you, but I don't think it's whataboutism in this case – because there are a limited number of options for K-12 education and you're legally required to pick one. It's easy to say that private schools are this moral affront when you have an excellent public school down the street and the resources to choose where you live in the first place.

Our educational system as a whole perpetuates the many social inequities in this country – and while a handful of absurdly well-resourced NY private schools may be emblematic of the problem ... they're not really the problem.

Exactly.

Totally agree. It is another form of privilege to be able to buy into a neighborhood zoned for good public schools. It’s not that different.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do people really care about what the truly elite do and have? My life is happy, fulfilling, and meaningful. I’m not struggling and have everything I could want. I could care less that families at these schools have more than I do. It just doesn’t impact me or my kids. Let them live their life. You live your life.

You should care about it because these are the folks who in many ways end up running the country on so many levels and make decisions that will directly affect you and your family

Do you think taking away their private schools is going to change that? Do you think people BECOME members of the elite class by attending elite schools, or do you think that a school becomes elite because members of the elite class choose to send their children there?

[Anonymous]

I think the article is pathetic. I mean sure if your kid goes to a “bad” HS, your chances in life aren’t that great. I don’t understand the hate though on private schools. Kids have those advantages not because they went to Sidwell etc, but because of who those kids are related to. My kids went to private and we are now in public. The private atmosphere was toxic and there were so many mental health issues. Not everything is as great as it seems.

[Anonymous]

Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?

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This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to.

[Anonymous]

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Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?

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This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to.

For goodness sake, read, people. This article is specifically focused on a handful of elite schools. She’s not talking about your little Catholic school, much as you want to be relevant to this conversation.

Here’s the essence in three sentences:

“The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here.” [she goes on to list the schools by name]

“However unintentionally, these schools pass on the values of our ruling class—chiefly, that a certain cutthroat approach to life is rewarded.”

“But what makes these schools truly ludicrous is their recent insistence that they are engines of equity and even ‘inclusivity.’”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people really care about what the truly elite do and have? My life is happy, fulfilling, and meaningful. I’m not struggling and have everything I could want. I could care less that families at these schools have more than I do. It just doesn’t impact me or my kids. Let them live their life. You live your life.

You should care about it because these are the folks who in many ways end up running the country on so many levels and make decisions that will directly affect you and your family

Exactly!!! A lot of people responding to this article are not as bright as they think they are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?

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This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to.

For goodness sake, read, people. This article is specifically focused on a handful of elite schools. She’s not talking about your little Catholic school, much as you want to be relevant to this conversation.

Here’s the essence in three sentences:

“The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here.” [she goes on to list the schools by name]

“However unintentionally, these schools pass on the values of our ruling class—chiefly, that a certain cutthroat approach to life is rewarded.”

“But what makes these schools truly ludicrous is their recent insistence that they are engines of equity and even ‘inclusivity.’”

This last sentence applies directly to the expensive popular schools in the DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?

+ 1

This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to.

For goodness sake, read, people. This article is specifically focused on a handful of elite schools. She’s not talking about your little Catholic school, much as you want to be relevant to this conversation.

Here’s the essence in three sentences:

“The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here.” [she goes on to list the schools by name]

“However unintentionally, these schools pass on the values of our ruling class—chiefly, that a certain cutthroat approach to life is rewarded.”

“But what makes these schools truly ludicrous is their recent insistence that they are engines of equity and even ‘inclusivity.’”

Well given that the clickbaity title is “pRiVaTe sChOoLs aRe iNdEfEnSiBlE” not “a handful of elite institutions are, duh, populated by the elite” I think PP can be excused.

The fact that a few private schools have vastly more resources than all other schools (public and private) is incredibly obvious. Are the objections really any different than objections to the existence of the Ivy League?

It’s a dumb article that conveys nothing except “omg, rich people continue to consume luxury goods!!!!”

[Anonymous]

“Rich people continue to consume luxury goods while claiming to care about equity and diversity and social justice.”

It’s ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?

+ 1

This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to.

For goodness sake, read, people. This article is specifically focused on a handful of elite schools. She’s not talking about your little Catholic school, much as you want to be relevant to this conversation.

Here’s the essence in three sentences:

“The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here.” [she goes on to list the schools by name]

“However unintentionally, these schools pass on the values of our ruling class—chiefly, that a certain cutthroat approach to life is rewarded.”

“But what makes these schools truly ludicrous is their recent insistence that they are engines of equity and even ‘inclusivity.’”

Well given that the clickbaity title is “pRiVaTe sChOoLs aRe iNdEfEnSiBlE” not “a handful of elite institutions are, duh, populated by the elite” I think PP can be excused.

The fact that a few private schools have vastly more resources than all other schools (public and private) is incredibly obvious. Are the objections really any different than objections to the existence of the Ivy League?

It’s a dumb article that conveys nothing except “omg, rich people continue to consume luxury goods!!!!”

I guess you’re old and just now learning how the internet works? I hope your kids are being taught to be more discerning consumers of digital media with those price tags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?

+ 1

This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to.

For goodness sake, read, people. This article is specifically focused on a handful of elite schools. She’s not talking about your little Catholic school, much as you want to be relevant to this conversation.

Here’s the essence in three sentences:

“The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—and these are our focus here.” [she goes on to list the schools by name]

“However unintentionally, these schools pass on the values of our ruling class—chiefly, that a certain cutthroat approach to life is rewarded.”

“But what makes these schools truly ludicrous is their recent insistence that they are engines of equity and even ‘inclusivity.’”

Well given that the clickbaity title is “pRiVaTe sChOoLs aRe iNdEfEnSiBlE” not “a handful of elite institutions are, duh, populated by the elite” I think PP can be excused.

The fact that a few private schools have vastly more resources than all other schools (public and private) is incredibly obvious. Are the objections really any different than objections to the existence of the Ivy League?

It’s a dumb article that conveys nothing except “omg, rich people continue to consume luxury goods!!!!”

I guess you’re old and just now learning how the internet works? I hope your kids are being taught to be more discerning consumers of digital media with those price tags.

Uh, okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Rich people continue to consume luxury goods while claiming to care about equity and diversity and social justice.”

It’s ridiculous.

It's not. Only the poor/minorities/oppressed can do it? I get that it's harder/less common for the rich to care, but it's hardly impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“Rich people continue to consume luxury goods while claiming to care about equity and diversity and social justice.”

It’s ridiculous.

It's not. Only the poor/minorities/oppressed can do it? I get that it's harder/less common for the rich to care, but it's hardly impossible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people really care about what the truly elite do and have? My life is happy, fulfilling, and meaningful. I’m not struggling and have everything I could want. I could care less that families at these schools have more than I do. It just doesn’t impact me or my kids. Let them live their life. You live your life.

You should care about it because these are the folks who in many ways end up running the country on so many levels and make decisions that will directly affect you and your family

Exactly!!! A lot of people responding to this article are not as bright as they think they are.

Once again, are you (and I assume you think that you are bright) under the impression that these schools PRODUCE the elite members of our society? You’re sure that the schools aren’t considered elite because of WHO SENDS THEIR KIDS THERE?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do people really care about what the truly elite do and have? My life is happy, fulfilling, and meaningful. I’m not struggling and have everything I could want. I could care less that families at these schools have more than I do. It just doesn’t impact me or my kids. Let them live their life. You live your life.

You should care about it because these are the folks who in many ways end up running the country on so many levels and make decisions that will directly affect you and your family

Exactly!!! A lot of people responding to this article are not as bright as they think they are.

Once again, are you (and I assume you think that you are bright) under the impression that these schools PRODUCE the elite members of our society? You’re sure that the schools aren’t considered elite because of WHO SENDS THEIR KIDS THERE?

NP. Maybe I’m not very bright, because I don’t know what the meaningful difference is. Would it be better to say that these schools MAINTAIN the elite members of our society?