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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend who graduated from Stuy years ago commented on the large number of low income students there. School is their way out of poverty so yes they are highly focused and driven. But sometimes that pursuit is at the expense of other things in life. Their life experience and perspectives are also limited because of their family background. Of course students of the TT privates may have the same issue, but from the other extreme. [/quote]

This.
I have a senior at Stuy. 
Social capital isn't a shining feature of that school.

You will have your average NYC parent there, then you will have the paranoid immigrant who takes his child's phone away every night and downloads the contacts. And when that kid comes home a little later than usual, the paranoid immigrant parent will text every single contact that his son has run away and the police are called. One of my kid's classmates lives with this and he's one of the few willing to speak up about this oppressive family dynamic. A lot more don't.[/quote]

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