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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids go to a private school in a very wealthy area. As they get older, I realize that I'm not paying for superior teachers or education.  As an example, my DD fell quite a few percent on a standardized test from the beginning of the school year to the end.  So we bring out the tutors/special classes to bring them up just as all of my friends would do. Our school has very high test scores but people would be deluding themselves if they think the school is the cause of the high test scores. It is correlation(population who values education versus this great machine of teachers who imparts wisdom on the kids).

So why do it?  Peers have a large influence on children ( actually I think for all people).  I want my daughter surrounded by like minded families.  Yes,   there are also the showy snobs but we would never be accepted in those circles anyway.  These kids are more likely to flame out.  So the kids remaining are more likely than her peers at public to come from families that value education.  In public, she could find those peers but she could have just as easily found friends who don't value education.  So I think the advantage that I give my daughter is that I increase the probability that she will be successful by putting her in a group that has a higher percentage of high achieving kids from where she can select her friends.  I don't care about race, I am looking to buy into a culture of achievement.[/quote]

I grew up in a blue collar family.  My mom got her GED when I was 10.  My father finished high school via night school and worked his way up from blue collar to management.

I attended public school.  I grew up in a "culture of achievement."

I earned full academic scholarships to college (not need-based, but academic) in the amount of $120,000.  I graduated without any debt and went on to get a masters from a highly regarded university.

During undergrad, I met a lot of kids who went to private schools for k-12.  My impression of them was that they didn't come from a "culture of achievement" but rather they came from a "culture of privilege."  Most of them lacked perspective and weren't capable of empathy.

Public school didn't fail me.  And I was underwhelmed with the private school kids I met.
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