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[quote=Anonymous]I understand your question, OP, and I don't think you necessarily set yourself up to have awful, entitled kids if you surround them with upper middle class peers.  Obviously, nice people can and often do go to very elite schools.  BUT, in my own experience, I'm super thankful for my more diverse educational experience.  I grew up upper middle class but went to public magnet and gifted schools (not in DC) in a place where almost every one of my neighborhood/friend peers went to private schools.  In my case, the education was very good, and I don't think my parents would have sent me to those schools had it not been.

But I think I turned out to be an entirely different person bc of being friends with people from all walks of life.  I think I was just inherently less elitist than my private school counterparts.  I think I may have turned out to be a snob without the school that I went to.  I didn't expect everyone to have fancy bags and shoes and cars and was kind of shocked when people had that stuff.  I was open minded about other religions, races, and sexual orientations bc I was exposed to them regularly at my school (which would not have been the case at the private schools when I was growing up).  When I got to my very expensive private college, I was kind of shocked at the level of consumption and privilege amongst my peers.  I was also shocked at how many of them didn't really care about the education part of college or didn't seem to have any ambitions, they were just there because it was prestigious and expensive and allowed them to continue to surround themselves with upper middle class kids.  I just think I had a very different perspective on life in general bc I didn't take it for granted that everyone was wealthy and would continue to be that way.

Anyway, that's obviously just my experience but I am eternally grateful for the fact that I went to public schools and was exposed to kids from different socio-economic backgrounds.  I don't know if I articulated it well but I've thought about it a lot, so I hope this helps.[/quote]

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