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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If that’s the ultimate message, then the article does a terrible job conveying it. The article mocks private schools for 10 pages, and then tosses in a couple paragraphs at the end to say that all schools should be nice?

I think the true goal was to trash private schools, and to hide it behind a fig leaf of moral superiority. [/quote]
+1000[/quote]

Caitlin Flanagan has written some great pieces over the years about her experiences as a teacher and college counselor at Harvard Westlake in LA, but this is a plate of warmed up leftovers.

It's a shame as a piece on this topic really could be so good. But this just recycles these well worn anecdotes about Sidwell then adds some moralizing at the end.

Also... she makes a lot of the Polaris List - but the top two schools on here are public, not private. 
https://polarislist.com/

And I think that sort of gets at a larger point....  the problem with the way affluent parents think about education and getting their own kids ahead is so much bigger and deeper and weirder and more depressing than what she's laid out here.  [/quote]

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