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The people who are really invested in these places often are the people who didn’t go to Harvard or Yale or Princeton, so they don’t know the many, many people who graduate from those places who live perfectly average or below average lives. It was amazing to me when I matriculated my child at one how willing people were to do whatever the school said even if it was like getting rid of phonics —
only to say oops! bad idea — no one can read! a few years later. A bad admin can do a lot of damage really fast at any school.

These places are hit and miss, some elementary are better, some have excellent high schools but bad middles. They run the gamut. Some you can bribe for grades, some are very good about not letting money be a huge part of school life.  Almost no one outside an incredibly small percentage of people whose children go there or who want their children go there knows the difference between these places. New York is a big, big place, and where you went to high school is a small, small matter. Where you went to elementary even less so.

They are not jealous of you for sending your kid there. Your kid is not better than theirs and it’s a bad idea to accept “just trust us” from any school, but you have to when there because the parents are so unwilling to advocate for their own kids’ education.

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