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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If money were no object, I would move to a place with great public schools I didn’t have to Lotto to get into.

The social effects of exposure to the “great facilities” at such a young age are not what I want for my kid.[/quote]

Would you mind elaborating on the social effects of great facilities.[/quote]

Entitlement. Distance from the lived experience of most age peers. Inability to navigate, or discomfort when navigating, circumstances that do not meet physical plant expectations and attendant social norms. Lack of comprehension of the vast and growing gap between the ultra-rich and everyone else in the US.

I teach college students, so I’ve seen all of these coming through. I was in college myself when I first met a kid whose parents bought a major work of modern art (and by “major” I mean Matisse) for each kid’s birth. I would rather my kid not encounter that until a similar age.[/quote]

You seem to paint private school families with a really broad stroke.  I imagine the kids who suffer from the things you list also exist in public schools in these very rich areas of VA and MD.  I grew up with people who did the equivalent of buying a Matisse for each kid's birth.  I don't see why it would have been better for me to not know those people until I was in college.  My friends I made who grew up in poor areas who had never met people like that actually seemed to be the ones who had a harder time dealing with that than I did.  They also tended to be less knowledgeable about the "gap" you speak of because they had lived in a homogeneous town their whole life.[/quote]

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