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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An "elite" doesn’t send their DC's to Harvard or Amherst to prepare them to work in consulting 70 hours per weeky.  An "elite" sends their DC's to Amherst so that they can have experiences that are not available at James Madison University.

By the same token, the elites don't have their DC's learn a foreign language so that they could become employable at MBB.  (Do you really think that Donald Trump's granddaughter is learning Chinese so that she might be recruited by McKinsey?)  The elites have their DC's learn a foreign language so that they can read Moliere or fall in love with a beautiful Argentine or live their best life as a 20 something expat in Africa.[/quote]

this isn't right, probably less than 1% of Ivy parents are 100-millionaires, the vast,  vast majority are millionaires or poorer and their children will have to work[/quote]

True.  But their children are unlikely to ever work with anyone that doesn’t know English. [/quote]

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