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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private schools actually select kids for admissions using similar tests and have years to weed out less impressive students. Given that, it's the private schools that are underperforming.[/quote]
What kind of screening do you think private schools are doing when the applicants are 3 or 4 years old?[/quote]

There have been many posts on this board arguing that most private school kids don’t come in at ages 3 or 4 and that most kids are chosen in a meritocratic way and not based on who their parents are.  Which is it?

Private schools insist they have superior outcomes to public schools, until they are shown data suggesting otherwise.[/quote]
You realize that private schools have several entry years and that in some years it's more based on their parents and in other years it's largely meritocratic and in some years it's a little of both? But you have to paint private schools with a broad brush, because it suits your flawed narrative.[/quote]

All that is true. They hand-pick the classes for 13 years, sometimes based on wealth or parent education. There are no exit years, they get rid of students all the time. They charge high tuition so the school is full of wealthy kids with all the advantages. Their numbers really should be higher. [/quote]

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