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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think much of what ultimately influences what our experience in life is depends on what social class we were born into. I'm not saying this as a good thing, just an observation. There is not that big of a difference between someone whose family has a lot of money, has traveled extensively, etc, who goes to BCC and someone whose family has a lot of money and who goes to GDS. If at the same college they will both seem more cultured than a student whose family doesn't have a lot of money regardless of whether that other student went to private or public. [/quote]

I don't know, I do think part of what you're saying makes sense, but having witnessed public and private school kids from the same neighborhood (literally the same street, so same SES or as close as you're going to get) act differently in public settings. Notably, one situation was in a coffee shop like place where high school kids routinely stopped for breakfast before school. I was also there often because it was close to my kids' school. The owner and other guests commented multiple times that the behavior of the two groups of students was vastly different yet they were all from the same area and I noticed the cars that many of the public school kids drove were vastly nicer than those of the private school kids, so I don't think it's totally a class thing.[/quote]
But don’t you think people can differ from their neighbors? I know our family has different values than some of those living close to us. We value other cultures, travel, experience over possessions and have no interest in joining a country club. Not the same for some in our neighborhood. So my point is comparing apples to apples based on family life and social class and experiences out of school, the end result is similar whether at bcc or Sidwell, etc. similar not exactly the same. And I think the behavior description above desks more with parenting than the school.[/quote]

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