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[quote=Anonymous]People make all kinds of decisions that are not strictly in line with some of their values in order to have creature comforts in life or in pursuit of other values that in that particular decision cut against each other.

I may be against sweatshops and push for better safety and wage regulations for factories, that doesn’t mean I’m sewing my own clothes. It can be hypocritical, or it can be the sorts of compromises we all make every day living in this world.

I will admit that when looking at private schools for my child, there was one school in which I felt the rhetoric was over the top and had me saying “if I/you believe all of that then we should be sticking with public school.”  We did not apply to that school. But caring about the city you live in and are a part of, being open to learning about other people’s experiences, not being a jerk about the privileges and opportunities you have, and putting some real effort into having kids with a mix of different experiences is achievable for a private school. When I was looking at applying I knew I was doing a bougie thing and I had reasons I thought it might be worth it to me in that particular situation. I didn’t want to hear a school tell me it wasn’t actually a bougie decision, and I didn’t want them to tell me what they could offer that public school couldn’t.

And my kid’s school is in some ways more diverse than our particular public school and in many ways less diverse. Life is full of trade-offs and no one lives strictly and fully in line with their values in every single decision. Most people’s commitment to equality has limits in that no one wants to be equal because everyone is equally miserable/oppressed/destitute. There are ways to care about equality and still send a kid to private school, and there are plenty of people who don’t care about it at all. [/quote]

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