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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The illuminating thing for me about this thread is the apparent proportion of graduates of Ivy League colleges who married graduates of Ivy League colleges. Maybe I should start a thread -- did you graduate from an Ivy League college and NOT marry another Ivy Leaguer?

Non-Ivy grad married to Ivy grad-we met in grad school at UofC. We went to publics/Catholics. Spouse was happy with the Jesuits, but we have too many ideological problems with the Catholic Church to go that route, so public it is.

[Anonymous]

Ivy grad, HHI right at $350K. Use a JKLM public and hope to use DCPS through high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy grad, HHI right at $350K. Use a JKLM public and hope to use DCPS through high school.

JKLM?

[Anonymous]

Top of the class triple Ivy League grad (only the best Ivies of course, not those second rate Ivies like Dartmouth, MIT, or (ugh!) Cornell, with a seven-figure income and - of course- fully funded college savings accounts and retirement funds.

Of course, I want to say I support the public schools, but I do worry about my gifted, talented, precious, and delightful DC being in contact with the groundlings in their highly-rated public school. And heaven forbid that I am forced to interact with parents of these students if they are not HHI Ivy League grads. And I also want to make sure that DC has time for karate, band, language lessons in four different languages (each dialect of course!), and three different sports after school.

My solution was to send DC to public schools, but he is under strict instructions to not speak to, touch, or interact in any way with other children whose parents are not HHI Ivy League grads just like my wife Muffy and I.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No Ivies here but we do have a high HHI (600k+ depending on bonuses). Anyway, we do public because we believe in the purpose of public education, the school they go to is decent, and also because we want our children to realize they are NOT the center of the universe and that the only way they're going to get somewhere in life is through their own hard work. DH strongly believes they are more likely to learn the value of perseverance at a public school.

Not in the DC area anymore (moved to NYC a few years ago). Hoping kids will pass into one of the magnates for HS. IMO, none of the NYC privates are as good as Stuy or Bronx Sci.

I agree that Stuy et al are great schools but so is Trinity, Horace Mann, Collegiate,etc. I have friends and relatives who'd gone to either and it really depends. Going to private school is not a free ride. All kids at these schools are worked like dogs and know the meaning of hard work - that's the only way to do well. I'm a pp and we will be back in NYC by high school and while we'll have DC take the test for Stuy, it won't be our first choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like we are all in are something that the private schoolers just don't get.

Does everyone who send their kids to public school speak this incoherently? Maybe I should take a poll.

If you went to an Ivy League school and send your child to public, yet can't string a sentence together, please post here.

Good try. Check out your own grammar before you criticize someone else. Ha ha!

[Anonymous]

5 ivy degrees between us, all hyp, income under350 due to public service and my part time, but low mortgage. Public. We grew up publi, and not fancy public either. We can make the kids smart, but want to build resilience. Also, to save for college.

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Anonymous wrote:It's interesting how so many parents in this thread don't want to send their kids to private because they don't want their child to be around snooty private school people, but yet are insufferably smug about that fact. LOL.

I didn't know that "I send my children to public schools" (or even "I send my children to public schools even though I could afford private") is smug at all, let alone insufferably smug.

Oh please. Have you read this thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top of the class triple Ivy League grad (only the best Ivies of course, not those second rate Ivies like Dartmouth, MIT, or (ugh!) Cornell, with a seven-figure income and - of course- fully funded college savings accounts and retirement funds.

Of course, I want to say I support the public schools, but I do worry about my gifted, talented, precious, and delightful DC being in contact with the groundlings in their highly-rated public school. And heaven forbid that I am forced to interact with parents of these students if they are not HHI Ivy League grads. And I also want to make sure that DC has time for karate, band, language lessons in four different languages (each dialect of course!), and three different sports after school.

My solution was to send DC to public schools, but he is under strict instructions to not speak to, touch, or interact in any way with other children whose parents are not HHI Ivy League grads just like my wife Muffy and I.

Nice try. MIT not an ivy.

[Anonymous]

Ivy for undergrad, UChicago for grad. We initially set out to do public, and lasted a year. Realized our kid needed a smaller, intimate atmosphere. *Shrugs*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top of the class triple Ivy League grad (only the best Ivies of course, not those second rate Ivies like Dartmouth, MIT, or (ugh!) Cornell, with a seven-figure income and - of course- fully funded college savings accounts and retirement funds.

Of course, I want to say I support the public schools, but I do worry about my gifted, talented, precious, and delightful DC being in contact with the groundlings in their highly-rated public school. And heaven forbid that I am forced to interact with parents of these students if they are not HHI Ivy League grads. And I also want to make sure that DC has time for karate, band, language lessons in four different languages (each dialect of course!), and three different sports after school.

My solution was to send DC to public schools, but he is under strict instructions to not speak to, touch, or interact in any way with other children whose parents are not HHI Ivy League grads just like my wife Muffy and I.

Not funny enough to work as satire and not savvy enough to succeed as snark. Referring to MIT as an Ivy really makes this post a wasted effort. Work on the basics, Biffster, and the rest will come naturally.

[Anonymous]

Both parents Ivy undergrad and Ivy grad school. Income 900K. Right now we have one kid in a Capitol Hill elementary school (not Brent or Maury, but a "less desirable" one). Don't know what we will do for middle school and beyond, but probably private or move to MD with heavy hearts since we love the Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting how so many parents in this thread don't want to send their kids to private because they don't want their child to be around snooty private school people, but yet are insufferably smug about that fact. LOL.

I didn't know that "I send my children to public schools" (or even "I send my children to public schools even though I could afford private") is smug at all, let alone insufferably smug.

Oh please. Have you read this thread?

Yes, I don't know who is smugger, the public school parents patting themselves on the back for toughening up their kids in the rough and tumble world of JKLM or MCPS, or the private school parents banging on endlessly about their "Big 3" and comparing matriculation stats down to the third decimal place.

Both sides seems to feel that in order for them to really feel like they made the right decision, the alternative has to be wrong.

Thank God the kids generally have more sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting how so many parents in this thread don't want to send their kids to private because they don't want their child to be around snooty private school people, but yet are insufferably smug about that fact. LOL.

I didn't know that "I send my children to public schools" (or even "I send my children to public schools even though I could afford private") is smug at all, let alone insufferably smug.

Oh please. Have you read this thread?

Yes, I don't know who is smugger, the public school parents patting themselves on the back for toughening up their kids in the rough and tumble world of JKLM or MCPS, or the private school parents banging on endlessly about their "Big 3" and comparing matriculation stats down to the third decimal place.

Both sides seems to feel that in order for them to really feel like they made the right decision, the alternative has to be wrong.

Thank God the kids generally have more sense.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's interesting how so many parents in this thread don't want to send their kids to private because they don't want their child to be around snooty private school people, but yet are insufferably smug about that fact. LOL.

I didn't know that "I send my children to public schools" (or even "I send my children to public schools even though I could afford private") is smug at all, let alone insufferably smug.

Oh please. Have you read this thread?

Yes, I don't know who is smugger, the public school parents patting themselves on the back for toughening up their kids in the rough and tumble world of JKLM or MCPS, or the private school parents banging on endlessly about their "Big 3" and comparing matriculation stats down to the third decimal place.

Both sides seems to feel that in order for them to really feel like they made the right decision, the alternative has to be wrong.

Thank God the kids generally have more sense.

I'm just happy my kids are getting top notch educations and, other than taxes, I'm not paying out the ass for it.

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