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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Now for something a little silly. Some private school parents (not all!) also think they are buying "connections" for their kids that will set them up for life. As a private school parent, I think this idea is incredibly dated. Frankly, we made some good connections as the parents in a private school, but I'm totally unconvinced our kids' classmates are going to do greater things than the kids they met in public schools. [/quote]

I don't think it is silly at all.  I went to a NYC private and my friends' parents from that school helped me to get jobs that I never would have gotten on my own.  [/quote]

That was my post (this is my first post since). Interesting - you're saying the connections are from your friends' [i]parents[/i]. This is provided you make friends who have the right parents, I presume.

I guess I'm saying that who you know is still critical. But the days of being from the "right" family, white shoe banking firms and country clubs are over (I know that world, my parents come from it). For one thing, it's no longer the case that Ivies fill their classes from public schools. So, that brilliant kid you meet in college who will become a good "connection" in a few years is just as likely to have come from a public school.[/quote]

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