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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems to me the entire point of TT is for status and networking. It goes along with the country house, classic six and charity events.

It’s debatable whether the education is better than a suburban public and probably not.  Your kid is simply more likely to befriend someone whose parent is a billionaire and travels via PJ.

One issue I see is that kids at NYC privates don’t have PT jobs. A PT job is instrumental in teaching life skills. It’s a humbling experience and important. Given AI, I’m more focused on my kids learning life skills than some elite resume.

FWIW I attended a selective private and then a public HS.  I didn’t think either was really better just different. The public had more diverse makeup. Not racial but socioeconomic and the kids were meaner. Better athletics and math. At the private I was constantly told how special I was and a lot of brainwashing about public schools and how terrible they are. [/quote]

Classic 6? That's comical. TT families want to have three kids as a status symbol so need more space than that! Having three kids in NYC is a way to show that you are rich enough to afford three kids in NYC, which is not easy (it's not easy in suburbia, but the marginal cost of more space for a third kid there is a lot less).

Some kids in NYC privates have a proxy for a PT job through volunteer work. But to your point, for the vast majority, the volunteer work is performative and checking a box, and not a meaningful experience. Because I greatly agree with you about the importance of this. Some kids do meaningful, roll-up-your-sleeves activities in the summer, but again, for many of them it is not really meaningful and is more about the college application and curated by an advisor.[/quote]

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