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[quote=Anonymous]Alum of a local public school & an Ivy, with kids now at a KLM.  The facts clearly support & our experience is that a vast majority of the kids at the JKLMs are from privileged or very privileged families -- with parents who are very well educated and most of whom *could* send their children to privates with varying levels of financial comfort/discomfort.  Just to note that so many kids from both public and private schools from their area go on to great-to-fantastic colleges and have incredible contacts and opportunities (yes, as a public school grad, many classmates are HYP and top other college alums, have stellar jobs -- and likewise experienced hyper intense academic environments in HS, date rapes and eating disorders and drugs and stuff).  I don't think the *differences* are as different as most private schoolers think they are.  The steep tuition increases in the past decade or so have changed the dynamics at the top local privates mean that the families are nearly all one percenters (or even higher), when there used to be more of a range of one-to-five percenters - so few that are big law or VERY successful entrepreneurs or consultants now attend in the elementary years.  [/quote]

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