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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a rich person myself I cannot stand private school parents.  They absolutely positively think their kids are too special to go to school with kids without money and don’t think their kids can possibly learn something and be better off from the experience.  It’s pathetic. [/quote]

That is why financial aid programs exist.  Not sure what your beef is.[/quote]

The top DC privates are not overrun with poor kids on financial aid and you know it.  [/quote]

Some of us would say so.  Financial aid is extremely generous.[/quote]

At Sidwell, 77 percent of student are full pay at $60k while the other 23 percent pay on average $20k.  How “generous” is that?   The average “poor” kid pays $20k a year for high school.

What a joke.  These are rich kid schools.  Full stop.  And everyone knows it, including the kids.  I did not want that for my own rich kids.  [/quote]

No one is making you send your kids to private schools. This seems like pages of absurdly obvious comments that gets extended by folks confirming the clear.  Private schools are expensive and therefore exclusionary, but for financial aid.  Hard stop.  No one is under any kind of illusion that it's something different, it's that we are paying for a premium product because we think it's better and we can afford it.  Nice restaurants don't offer financial aid and are filled with wealthy people.  Is that equally problematic? I fly in business or first class...most don't.  Is that an issue for you?

Wealthy people, rightly or wrongly but definitionally, can afford to purchase things that less wealthy folks cannot.  Is that breaking news is some way? [/quote]

Yes, but airlines or nice restaurants don’t print in their tickets or menus the label of social justice, so they are not deceiving anyone. [/quote]

No idea why you think we care about social justice or socioeconomic equality.

This is just a school for our kids.  We don’t care about that stuff.  Move on.[/quote]

But the schools you send your kids to pretend to.  We prefer dealing with honest brokers. [/quote]

We? So if you are a disgruntled private school parent leave. And if you aren't a private school family who cares? Fix your own broken school.[/quote]

I’m not.  I’m the rich poster who sent my kids to public.  But I appreciate your honest feedback, because you and your attitude are exactly why I didn’t send my kids to private and it’s good to see my reasoning confirmed.  But I guarantee you do not talk so bluntly when you’re not posting anonymously, hypocrite.  [/quote]

I went to public school. That was enough for me! I tell people who ask why I chose private school, I guess we haven't crossed paths yet. To each their own.[/quote]

Same!

All 3 kids in my family are product of public schools through grad school.  All 3 of us send our kids private.[/quote]

People think we don't know what we're missing out on. Unfortunately we know all too well. No need to put lipstick on this pig and call it "segregation".[/quote]

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