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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a private school basher.  Some private schools are great institutions.  
I have children in both private and public schools and I attended both public and private schools.  
What works for my family:  public school during the formative and early school years to immunise against entitlement syndrome and private school  later if there is a need or interest for depth in particular areas.  Crew and/or Math and Science at Exeter for example.  
So far, we are fortunate--learning disabilities and a required need for small classes or one-on-one instruction have not forced our hands to seek a small private school earlier.  Our kids love and are thriving in the big public pond and have neither need nor requirement for an elite and exclusive private educational bubble for their primary education.[/quote]

We have kids in public and private. Our experience is that private can be more diverse than public. I agree with PPs that kids need to rub shoulders with kids for whom an ipad is an impossibility. My kids have friends who can't come over to play because their parents don't have gas money to drive them. Tickets to various events are out of the question for these kids. My kids see that and understand that they are privileged. I don't see how they could see that if they spent 24/7 around upper middle class kids.

I don't want to raise kids who think people are poor because they don't work hard. They know kids whose parents work at two crappy jobs just to keep the family fed. These kids' families are poor, but their parents work harder than anyone I know. My kids see this and understand that when a someone gets a BMW for a graduation gift, that is extraordinary, not the norm.

I don't know if you can truly have empathy for people if you don't sit next to them, talk with them, begin to care about them. I would be doing a disservice to my children if I were to prevent them from having that experience. That's why I won't let them go to any school that is exclusively upper middle class. 
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