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[quote=Anonymous]The argument that one needs to be in an expensive home, to go to a "top" high school, so their child will be with appropriately invested and intelligent peers feels elitist and racist and very sad. 
You are short-changing yourself and your family. There is value to having peers of all backgrounds. Real, human value -- which has nothing to do with how much money you make or the schools you attended. 
My kid is smart and strong enough to attend a DCC magnet High School, MC and Maryland and succeed -- but will probably be in a "good" college with YOUR kids. No red-shirting in Kindergarten, either (Malcolm Gladwell did a lot of aspirational and insecure parents and their average kids no favors.) We are white and comfortable and choose to live where we do for various reasons. We will be retired at 50.

We bought him a modest home in a "brown" part of the county at birth and rent it out. It will be paid off when he turns 18, when we will continue to use the rent to pay for whatever or wherever he goes next (assuming college, but who knows?). Later, we plan to sell it and with the other investments we have for him and the money he is already saving mowing yards can pay cash for a place in YOUR neighborhood. He does not know this. We have not told him and will not until later - probably upon getting a job after college graduation at the earliest. He is bilingual, and not because we speak a foreign language at home.  It's because he works at it -- you know, with peers who want to challenge themselves. Etc.

There are different ways to advantage a child beyond an elite high school.

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