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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^I agree.  In addition, I'd say that as a 2 Ivy couple with kids in public, we saw a lot of classmates in college who had attended very expensive privates/boarding schools.  Not always such a pretty picture!  Sometimes people look at those schools with rose colored glasses.  That much affluence or access to the trappings of affluence can be detrimental to young kids (even at the high school level).  Many of us know that a good public school will give a motivated, smart kid a great start in life (without all the pitfalls that can come with privates).  [/quote]

I went to Harvard. I certainly met nice well-adjusted people who attended expensive private schools. I also met children from very wealthy families who were sent to boarding schools because after their parents' divorce, the parents needed to focus on their new families or re-entering the dating scene. I met families who had long traditions of outsourcing childrearing. I met people who responded to the regimented scheduling of boarding school by going hog-wild and taking as many drugs as their ample allowances permitted. Wealth doesn't necessarily mean an absence of values, but studies show that the wealthy are less sensitive to the needs of others. Wealth also enables crap parents to meet their kids' daily needs without any emotional involvement.[/quote]

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