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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a rich person myself I cannot stand private school parents.  They absolutely positively think their kids are too special to go to school with kids without money and don’t think their kids can possibly learn something and be better off from the experience.  It’s pathetic. [/quote]

That is why financial aid programs exist.  Not sure what your beef is.[/quote]

The top DC privates are not overrun with poor kids on financial aid and you know it.  [/quote]

Some of us would say so.  Financial aid is extremely generous.[/quote]

At Sidwell, 77 percent of student are full pay at $60k while the other 23 percent pay on average $20k.  How “generous” is that?   The average “poor” kid pays $20k a year for high school.

What a joke.  These are rich kid schools.  Full stop.  And everyone knows it, including the kids.  I did not want that for my own rich kids.  [/quote]

No one is making you send your kids to private schools. This seems like pages of absurdly obvious comments that gets extended by folks confirming the clear.  Private schools are expensive and therefore exclusionary, but for financial aid.  Hard stop.  No one is under any kind of illusion that it's something different, it's that we are paying for a premium product because we think it's better and we can afford it.  Nice restaurants don't offer financial aid and are filled with wealthy people.  Is that equally problematic? I fly in business or first class...most don't.  Is that an issue for you?

Wealthy people, rightly or wrongly but definitionally, can afford to purchase things that less wealthy folks cannot.  Is that breaking news is some way? [/quote]

Yes, but airlines or nice restaurants don’t print in their tickets or menus the label of social justice, so they are not deceiving anyone. [/quote]

No idea why you think we care about social justice or socioeconomic equality.

This is just a school for our kids.  We don’t care about that stuff.  Move on.[/quote]

But the schools you send your kids to pretend to.  We prefer dealing with honest brokers. [/quote]

My kids attend 2 different private school - I just reread their websites and mission statement- NOTHING about social justice.  Maybe those are just the hippie dippie schools.[/quote]

And you’re proud of that?  [/quote]

Nothing in my post says proud.  We are not hypocrites.  I don’t care if I choose to raise my kids in a bubble - why do you care so much how I raise my kids. We are NOT hypocrites and neither is our school.[/quote]

Which schools?
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