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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the PPs that you shouldn't be shielding your kids from these conversations. Reality is OK. My kids know the US News rankings, the test scores of different schools, the college results, and talk about how their old school is "mediocre," which it was.

Saying "all the schools are equally great!" becomes gaslighting at some point. When they grow up and have friends who went to a variety of schools, they will realize how good or bad their school was.

Re: amplify science, it's especially important that they know to be skeptical of the curriculum so they don't end up learning things inaccurately. [/quote]

Your MS is aware of US News rankings and calls their old school mediocre?

I went to a better public HS than most people I've ever met not from my area and let me tell you the only thing I learned when I grew up is how meaningless most of this was and that parental support and financial security was far more important. [/quote]

Sorry but you can’t support all the subjects in middle and high school.  Even tutoring isn’t going to fully make up the deficit of what peers are learning at much better and more rigorous schools. That is just reality.

I guess if you have a trust fund it doesn’t matter.  But for the rest of us who are middle and upper middle class, stakes are much higher now and college is much more competitive.[/quote]

Peers aren't necessarily learning more is the point. A lot of school rankings are because of testing and resources, which they get from wealthy parents. There is absolutely inequity in schools, tons and tons of it, but US News rankings aren't going to reflect that. They're going to mostly reflect the resources of the kids they serve.[/quote]

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