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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm amazed that your definition of diversity is "poor people." Since when does diversity mean a sprinkling of poor people? Give me a break. Poor people rarely have any interest in sending their kids to a $40K school.[/quote]
It's not my definition.  I was simply responding to PP's preposterous claim that giving FA to top 10 to 20 percent families somehow helps make private schools more diverse, because otherwise, if you don't, private schools will be full of really rich and really poor students and that's just terrible.

And stop it with this notion that those making between $75K and $105K are "poor people."

Finally, who made you the spokesperson for poor people?  How do you know they don't have any interest in sending their kids to private schools, whether ones that cost $40K or much less?  In some ways it's quite condescending to assume that poor families wouldn't want the benefits of a private school education, especially if schools made legitimate efforts to accommodate their financial circumstances.[/quote]

What makes a spokesperson is that my family was, in fact, one of those poor people. What makes me a spokesperson is that many of my family members are currently those poor people that I refer too. See, despite my current income I actually know, hang around, friends with many of those poor people that you think of in the hypothetical. Like I said, most poor people have bigger fish to fry and the last thing they are doing is trying to figure out how to send their kid to a Big 3. Of course, there may be some here and there but certainly they are not in abundance and there certainly are not enough of them to diversify a school in any significant way. The hypocrisy of it all is that you are the same people who will tell someone who may be able to squeak out being full pay to not do it because it is not a wise financial decision for a myriad of reasons (i.e., you will have no money left over for camps, enrichments, birthday party gifts, vacations), but yet you seem to think that attending a $40K school on FA for a poor kid (who most certainly will have no money for all of the "other things") is somehow a good thing. Give me a break. It is the upper middle class families that can actually attend with FA (and can manage to squeeze out a few extra "others") who are actually making the better financial decision. [/quote]

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