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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those kids don’t even attend school on a regular basis. My DH had quite a few students who missed well over 50 days of school. They missed that every year. [/quote]

… and? They’re still getting Cs and Ds. This idea that public school teachers are not allowed to give Cs and Ds is demonstrably false. They can and they do.

Private school parents are angry because when colleges look at class rank, computed or imputed, those kids are included in the denominator for public school. Those kids aren’t even in private school, so instead some rich college-bound kid has to be in the bottom 10%. But of course avoiding those kids is one of the main reasons people go to private school in the first place. You can’t have it both ways. Somebody has to be at the bottom of the class. [/quote]
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+1.  The unsaid part of the "privates are better" posts and comments is the assumption that someone private school kids are organically smarter and better.  Their ONLY way to validate this is to score high on the SAT or ACT which of course the vast majority of private school kids don't despite the $500/hour SAT prep.  Guess who's pushing for test blind admissions? It's not the poor people or URMs at publics..  :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

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