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[quote]I’m the grandparent who could pay but won’t. I didn’t grow up rich or going to fancy schools either. Trust me. I just think 9/10 of this is parenting. You don’t have to spend all that money to get a good education, and there’s nothing wrong with meeting a disadvantaged classmate every once in a while - and, God forbid, maybe even making friends with some![/quote]

I have kids who have gone public and another who went to private all the way through. There is no question that our kid who went to private had a substantially more rigorous education (and most of my kid’s friends were not wealthy, although some certainly were). I know from experience my kid would have had a good education at our W school, but DC had a superlative education at private with superior extracurricular opportunities and relationships with faculty.

Still, all of our kids ended up at good colleges where they did well, so whether the private education was worth it is a personal decision (we think it was).  My problem is the blanket statements you make based on generic stereotypes and no personal experience that reflect a very black/white thinking. In short, your perception of private schools as places for only the wealthy is just wrong based on actual experience.[/quote]

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