Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.

+1. It's b/c they don't care about their kids' education as much as they do about their lifestyle. They derive status from luxury goods but don't care enough about education to get the best education money can buy for their kids. Probably more interested in their kids' athletics and getting a sports scholarship to some state school.

[Anonymous]

PS, some of this has to be a spoof, right? You all are seriously over-estimating both the legacy boost and the advantage, if any, that going private confers on admissions chances. So Harvard takes 30% of legacy applicants, the fact remains that these legacy applicants are a crowded field of straight-A, accomplished kids and going private is not going to make your kid stand out, and in fact it may work against him.

Times have changed. Either your kids are tiny and you'll learn this soon, or this is a spoof. If the former, I hope you don't let your disappointment in your kid show too much when he fails to beat these odds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PS, some of this has to be a spoof, right? You all are seriously over-estimating both the legacy boost and the advantage, if any, that going private confers on admissions chances. So Harvard takes 30% of legacy applicants, the fact remains that these legacy applicants are a crowded field of straight-A, accomplished kids and going private is not going to make your kid stand out, and in fact it may work against him.

Times have changed. Either your kids are tiny and you'll learn this soon, or this is a spoof. If the former, I hope you don't let your disappointment in your kid show too much when he fails to beat these odds.

Should say, I'm 3:35 and my PS was responding to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PS, some of this has to be a spoof, right? You all are seriously over-estimating both the legacy boost and the advantage, if any, that going private confers kids and going private is not going to make your kid stand out, and in fact it may work against him.

Times have changed. Either your kids are tiny and you'll learn this soon, or this is a spoof. If the former, I hope you don't let your disappointment in your kid show too much when he fails to beat these odds.

There is no advantage to getting into the Ivies by going to private school and it's actually a disadvantage. The majority of kids at all the Ivies have and will always be from public schools. If you were an Ivy legacy, pp, you would know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.

+1. It's b/c they don't care about their kids' education as much as they do about their lifestyle. They derive status from luxury goods but don't care enough about education to get the best education money can buy for their kids. Probably more interested in their kids' athletics and getting a sports scholarship to some state school.

C'mon, just say it. You don't want your kids making friends with FARMS kids. So instead you denigrate the excellent education available at many public schools as a cover for your classism/snobbery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PS, some of this has to be a spoof, right? You all are seriously over-estimating both the legacy boost and the advantage, if any, that going private confers kids and going private is not going to make your kid stand out, and in fact it may work against him.

Times have changed. Either your kids are tiny and you'll learn this soon, or this is a spoof. If the former, I hope you don't let your disappointment in your kid show too much when he fails to beat these odds.

There is no advantage to getting into the Ivies by going to private school and it's actually a disadvantage. The majority of kids at all the Ivies have and will always be from public schools. If you were an Ivy legacy, pp, you would know that.

Ahem. I'm the first PP, I'm an Ivy legacy but I went to a different Ivy, and that's why I wrote what's above. I think we are saying the same thing? That private school is no guarantee of Ivy admission, legacy or no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.

+1. It's b/c they don't care about their kids' education as much as they do about their lifestyle. They derive status from luxury goods but don't care enough about education to get the best education money can buy for their kids. Probably more interested in their kids' athletics and getting a sports scholarship to some state school.

C'mon, just say it. You don't want your kids making friends with FARMS kids. So instead you denigrate the excellent education available at many public schools as a cover for your classism/snobbery.

Don't know any FARM kids who live in million dollar houses, drive luxury cars, etc.

"Excellent public education" is an oxymoron at least in DC where they can't even get 50% reading at grade level in any grade. Excellent indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PS, some of this has to be a spoof, right? You all are seriously over-estimating both the legacy boost and the advantage, if any, that going private confers kids and going private is not going to make your kid stand out, and in fact it may work against him.

Times have changed. Either your kids are tiny and you'll learn this soon, or this is a spoof. If the former, I hope you don't let your disappointment in your kid show too much when he fails to beat these odds.

There is no advantage to getting into the Ivies by going to private school and it's actually a disadvantage. The majority of kids at all the Ivies have and will always be from public schools. If you were an Ivy legacy, pp, you would know that.

Ahem. I'm the first PP, I'm an Ivy legacy but I went to a different Ivy, and that's why I wrote what's above. I think we are saying the same thing? That private school is no guarantee of Ivy admission, legacy or no.

No, actually. Going to a private school is a disadvantage especially if you live on the East Coast -Boston to DC corridor. The best odds for Ivy admissions is to send your kid to a public high school in flyover country (+Alaska and Hawaii), legacy or not, all things being equal like excellent grades, SAT scores, extracurriculars and passionate about "something".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.

+1. It's b/c they don't care about their kids' education as much as they do about their lifestyle. They derive status from luxury goods but don't care enough about education to get the best education money can buy for their kids. Probably more interested in their kids' athletics and getting a sports scholarship to some state school.

C'mon, just say it. You don't want your kids making friends with FARMS kids. So instead you denigrate the excellent education available at many public schools as a cover for your classism/snobbery.

Don't know any FARM kids who live in million dollar houses, drive luxury cars, etc.

"Excellent public education" is an oxymoron at least in DC where they can't even get 50% reading at grade level in any grade. Excellent indeed.

See, when you make up crap like this, it only convinces us more that you're covering up your real reasons. Of course there are FARMS kids in every school district. And the on-grade reading level is much higher than 50% in school districts with million dollar homes. Although feel free to tell us if you're zoned for Ballou. This is the politically incorrect thread, so instead of making up crap, you should just own your class insecurities or racism or whatever's driving these seemingly ignorant statements of yours.

[Anonymous]

^ zoned for Dunbar actually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ zoned for Dunbar actually.

FYI, they score 17% at or above grade level in reading.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ zoned for Dunbar actually.

Your point, then? That you're unhappy with Dunbar so nobody should be happy with Murch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ zoned for Dunbar actually.

FYI, they score 17% at or above grade level in reading.

So go private, or revisit your dumb decision to live in an area with substandard schools.

But don't show up on DCUM to slam other peoples' decisions to live in million dollar homes while sending their kids to their own excellent public schools. Geez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ zoned for Dunbar actually.

Your point, then? That you're unhappy with Dunbar so nobody should be happy with Murch?

Dunbar is a high school unlike Murch.

I'm sure Murch is a good elementary school and you don't want to pay for private middle and high school that's your choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ zoned for Dunbar actually.

FYI, they score 17% at or above grade level in reading.

So go private, or revisit your dumb decision to live in an area with substandard schools.

But don't show up on DCUM to slam other peoples' decisions to live in million dollar homes while sending their kids to their own excellent public schools. Geez.

This is the private school politically incorrect thread. If you don't want to be insulted for sending your kid to public school, don't read.