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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The richest kids are best friends outside of school and their parents are friends with each other. Everyone is "friendly" at school but that's where it ends. Cliques almost always break by family SES.[/quote]

This, and I don't think it's unique to private school, I see the same thing at our local public (we are in private but interact quite often with the neighborhood kids who go to the neighborhood schools). My neighbors have the same complaint.

However, the truly mega wealthy people I know (like family money in the billions) don't act this way.  They are as subtle as possible with their wealth and seem super comfortable with everyone.  Their kids too.  It is the show off wealthy that seem to either consciously or subconsciously form their own parental bubble (vacation together, in a supper club together, get Nats tickets together, chair nonprofits together, live near each other), things that usually require time and money, both valuable commodities some FA families don't have.  They have the Range Rovers, the LV purse, the Hermes belt, go to Nantucket or the Cape, and somehow make sure you know that.  Kids might pick up on that.  Some kids before they start K have been hanging with the same group of kids for years because of it so they start off tight knit.  But at school I don't think they self segregate based on SES or FA status because most people don't know who has FA. [/quote]

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