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[quote=Anonymous]Face it, there are trade-offs in life.  Most of the time, you cannot have everything you want.  Of course, this applies to choosing a school.

However, you want to "have it all".  You want the private school, and you also want DCUM to validate your choice by agreeing to some fig leaf about how your kid will have diversity too. But several of us have rejected your arguments.  It's a bit of a joke to argue that there's more racial or religious diversity in private schools than in public schools.  Or that you can get diversity by doing the noblesse oblige thing in a soup kitchen once a month.

There are trade-offs in life, and you can't have it all.  Make the trade-off that is best for your kid.  Choose private school if your kid needs a low student-teacher ratio, or whatever.  But you need to accept that you will be sacrificing exposure to true diversity (including religious diversity!  geez!).  You are not going to get our support on the diversity issue, because the fig leafs mentioned here just don't stand up to scrutiny.[/quote]

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