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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see this thread ending well. And there is some irony in the fact that you are willing to describe kids who are 4-10 as "social climbing." What about asking instead about the curricula that different schools implement to foster kindness and empathy?[/quote]

OP here - sorry if this question hit a nerve with you.  I can tell you that I went to a top private in DC and the kids who were "mean" (name calling, exclusionary etc) in first and second grade were honestly still the mean kids in 10th and 11th grade. I can think of maybe one exception, so I am definitely taking the student populations into account while we look at schools. I think schools can do a lot to teach kindness and niceness, but I honestly think that a lot of it comes from the home, so if the parents are clueless and/or not willing to address it - it can really fester.  So, yes, I do think 4-10 year olds can be mean and cruel. Social climbing may have been the wrong term, but it certainly turns into that by 5th/6th grade.

And,  yes, there are always going to be mean kids - always always, but if I could find a school that perhaps had kids that were majority kind, I'd put it on my radar screen.

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