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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All 3 of your examples (low income, single parent, disabilities) may have struggles in private schools that might make the experience not as wonderful as you think. Not that I think they should be excluded or discriminated against. I'm just saying there's a reality that private schools can be full of rich kids going on vacations and buying whatever they want, which may be less than ideal if your single mom or low income family can't. Even the schedule can be harder for single parents than public school. And disabilities require resources that private schools may not want to invest in. My point is, you want kids to thrive. A school can only handle so much. It's unlikely they can ALSO address financial diversity and learning style diversity. 
No school can be everything to everyone. [/quote]

I am a single mom, and my kid went to an elite private for a stretch before returning to public. It was not difficult for us to manage the experience or the logistics. We received substantial aid as we have one salary and I work in public education.  In our experience, we were not aspiring to a wealthy lifestyle of fancy things and vacations, and it was actually really humorous how awkward many of the wealthy families felt around us.  There were all of these attempts to loan us skis and get us connected to the fancy scene, and we didn't want it or feel at all awkward that we weren't part of it.  Here's the secret: many private school teachers and other staff members aren't so wealthy themselves, so families like ours had deeper, more authentic, and more immediate connections within the faculty community.  This part was really cool.  We were there for the school and its values, and the school, had it the means, would have been totally need blind.  It was cool knowing that my kid was there because they wanted them, not because they wanted our money.[/quote]

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