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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I clearly did touch a nerve. Predictably I suppose.

I want to clarify that what I find odd is not that there are SOME wealthy families who send their kids to public school, but that there’s a particular obsession at some public schools with being flashy.  YSL handbags are like the least expensive designer handbags you can buy - but people buy them in part because they scream “I’m expensive” even to those who know nothing about handbags. And I guess I don’t understand that mentality - wanting to look expensive to strangers - when MOST of those women are not super wealthy. And most wealthy women I know don’t carry an entry-level YSL logo handbag.

Anyway, i don’t really understand what it is I’m getting at, but this thread is helping me realize it’s less about school choice and more about displays of wealth and their meaning that I find confusing, and interesting, particularly in certain subcultures (where half the moms carry the same handbag).[/quote]

Uhhhh maybe because a YSL handbag costs maybe 1/20th of annual private school tuition, so they can afford the handbag (which some of these women view as an investment in something they will carry for several years) but cannot afford 12+ years of private school tuition.  Obviously.

OP, also, you are such a pretentious d-bag.[/quote]

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