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[quote=Anonymous][quote]"Ms. Blackwell wondered, as many private school parents might have when they read Mr. Martin’s words in newspaper accounts of the league’s report, whether he was calling out the sort of deliberately constructed communities that many private schools specialize in creating — [b]built on intense attention to children’s feelings and the imprinting of values that support a commitment to civility.[/b]

"Schools like that are not much like the world that many parents live and work in, where people are disposable, loyalty no longer matters much and every person is scratching away for themselves.[/quote]

That is exactly what I would value in a private school. Civility and regard for the individual - these are the values we ought to be getting from education. They are the values we should try to foster at home. They are the leaven that make society better.

Just because the world is sometimes dog-eat-dog, does not mean that we must accept it or surrender to it. We can mitigate it.

I hope my child grows up assuming he matters and that other people matter. When he realizes the "real" world often does not operate as though that is true, I hope he is indignant. I hope he refuses to cow-tow.[/quote]

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