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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Pull our kids out of private and put them in an economically diverse public? Move to the Midwest? Insist that our kids don't have to take the most rigorous classes available to them? Be okay with them going to UMD or a SLAC ranked below the Top 20 rather than an Ivy? Put them in therapy with an intense cycle of medications?[/quote]

We live in "flyover" now. In a suburb. Our kids attend a public hs where 40% get free and reduced and my white kids are the minority. Last year my senior graduated with 6 or 7 APs. He is about to go to a good (top 50) private university  1600 miles away - probably with a number of DMV kids. He and his hs friends are happy and healthy and well-adjusted with SES across the spectrum. I am not aware of any friends of his with serious mental health issues, at least at his particular school. Boys or girls. We even stayed away from the local pressure-cooker high schools for this reason. The kids are all the same and then they go to college with kids who are all the same. [/quote]

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