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[quote=Anonymous]I don't see why you'd have "attend an Ivy for undergrad" as your main goal for your kid's K through 12 education (and I say that as someone who did attend an Ivy for undergrad).

I'm not at all sure the cost of Ivy League schools is remotely justified anymore; it probably wasn't justified when I went, but that was 30 years of tuition inflation ago. One of my kids is too young to have any idea what they want to do when they get older, but the other one is interested in becoming an elementary school teacher, and I definitely don't see the point in paying $90,000 a year or whatever Ivy tuition will be four years from now just so they can also go to graduate education school.

My spouse and I both went to public school from K through 12, so I don't really know what we'd be missing by sending our kids to private, but I do know what they'd be getting if they go to the Ivy League, and it's plainly not worth making that the only thing I care about between now and then.[/quote]

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