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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean the schools that allowed you to success and rise to the umc? The schools that got you to Mclean and sending your kids to Sidwell? Those schools?[/quote]

Those success examples are the exception rather than the rule at those schools.  Probably 1 success for every 800 failures.

As Mike Tyson famously once said:  EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH.

If you feel Wakefield is a good school and want to send your kids there, please go ahead.  This is a free country and everyone has the right to be stupid  :cry: [/quote]

I'm not following your logic. If it's a matter of resources (tutors, lessons, whatever), would it not stand to reason that a child who has access to all of those things and still attends a school like Wakefiled would be equally successful? Isn't that what the OP is asking about? And would it not stand to reason that a family who is on the [b]lower end of "UMC" could afford more of those "extras" if they lived within their means in a less expensive home and instead spent that money on enrichment for their children? [/b][/quote]

Exactly this. PPs have pointed to their successful children who are getting tutoring a couple times a week, SAT prep classes, private coaching etc. despite attending "top" schools.  Seems to me if you are an actual middle class family (as opposed to the $400-$600K "MC" families the PP reference), you are much better off buying the home you can afford in an average school district and investing the money you saved on your house in those extras.  Since, apparently, your child will need them anyway to be competitive at a top school. How exceptional is that school really if the parents still feel they need to do so much out of school support? [/quote]

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