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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How are private schools "select[ing] for smart students" and 
"accepting only rich kids who are mediocre at best academically or intellectually" a consistent narrative?[/quote]

My 2 cents: the smartest, most creative, most ultimately successful kids are likely to be in publics, because [b]top creativity and intellectual capacity do not correlate to working in jobs with salaries that support private school tuitions[/b].

Top publics in intellectual areas (NW DC, college towns) have some of those very top kids, plus lots of really motivated and smart kids, plus everyone else.

Private schools have a lot of extremely privileged kids who are motivated and smart; and also a lot of average kids with moneyed parents who will be "successful" in terms of the researched variables.

So basically: the fact that privates have some smart, motivated kids does not mean that publics do not.  And the fact that some smart, motivated kids attend privates does not mean that they are all smart and motivated.  [/quote]

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.  While not everyone who makes a lot of money is a genius, I don't have many stupid rich friends.  In fact, the smartest people I've ever met have also been wealthy. [/quote]

Logic fail.  I never said that there are no smart, successful kids in privates.  I said that publics have the most extraordinary kids.  I mean, I challenge you to look at recent years of MacArthur Genius award grantees.  I guarantee you that there are very, very few private high school kids there.  [/quote]

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