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[quote=Anonymous]Once more, with feeling:  As 1:44 and 10:50 both explained, your kid will interact with low-SES kids in a truly diverse school.  Your kid will be in class with low-SES kids, even if your kid doesn't eat lunch with them.  This point has been made by two different posters with actual experience, by my count.  Also, the idea that you can teach your kids to value diversity in a vacuum, without having them do their own interacting, has been debunked.  The idea that kids can completely segregate themselves has been debunked.

Let me quote 10:50 (not me), just to be helpful:  "But my point, and the point of some pp's that posted above, is that in a diverse school, you often have to interact with kids of different races and SES levels. While your lunch group - i.e., your closest friends - likely will be those similar to you, it is damn hard to avoid any interactions with kids of different backgrounds if you are in a truly diverse school."

Honestly, the only reason I can think why you missed these posts, and also missed the multiple posts saying low-SES doesn't exist in privates, is because you don't want to see them.  I never like it when posters tell others they have poor reading comprehension.  Instead I think these things are just something you don't want to hear.  That, or your debating style is to ignore anybody who refutes you.

So I guess I'm not going to waste any more time here.

I'll just wind up with this:  send your kid to private school because you want art and social studies before middle school, or good teacher-student ratios.  This is a choice we made ourselves.  But it's ridiculous to keep making flimsy arguments about how true diversity (low SES) exists in private schools.  [/quote]

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