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[quote=Anonymous]To answer the OP's question, nothing.  I think it also is not a public vs private thing.  My children happen to attend private school, but they frankly see a lot more diversity than they would have if I sent them to the lily white JKLM elementary down the street.  A tiny starter house that needs work in my neighborhood goes for $750K.  So how much economic diversity is there, really?  With the possible exception of the very few lucky winners in the out-of-boundary lottery, all of the kids going to that school have parents who pull in six or seven figures a year.

My children attend private school because I want them to understand that there is a point to being a well-rounded and educated person that goes beyond competing hard to ensure that they, and not Johnny or Susie, get the spot at TJ or Blair.  I grew up going to public school.  On paper there was a tremendous amount of divserity of every type in my public school system in a reasonably affluent suburb of another city in the Northeast.  In reality, there was no diversity.  The gifted kids were 99% white, they came from uppr middle class or wealthy families, and you spent your entire school day with the same small group of 50 or so kids.  We were the "poor" family because we didn't belong to the country club.  I doubt the public schools around here are any different from the ones I knew.  I think the choice between public and private based on some sort of diversity basis, including economic diversaity, is a false dichotomy.[/quote]

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