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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What idiot even brings TJ up in a discussion of elite, long standing, private schools like Exeter, Andover, Groton, Choate, St Paul's, STA and Sidwell?  What a joke.  TJ is an incredible, fantastic PUBLIC school for brilliant, hard working middle class and recently-arrived UMC kids.  TJ is great for those folks but its comparing apples and oranges.  Not even the same universe.[/quote]

You are the idiot. There is only one universe idiot. Not in the same league, not at the same level etc. maybe ok but not "Not in the same universe". See the logic (or lack thereof) of people putting down TJ.  [/quote]

This. Plus it's a sad worldview where kids from 2 professional parent families with graduate degrees (noting that TJ is 1.5% FARMS) are "middle class" or even "recently arrived upper middle class."  No wonder the actual middle class hates the 1% so much.  Apparently, the 1% looks at parents who are a doctor and a federal lawyer spending 750k-a million dollars on a house who pour the kind of money into kid enrichment that TJ parents do (private music lessons, travel sports teams, tutors, etc) and think-- yeah, that's the struggle of an average, middle class American. And we all wonder how Trump got a foothold. What a joke. [/quote]

I agree this attitude that I'n seeing on this board is absolutely unbelievable to me. And one that I naively thought had become extinct a few decades ago. [/quote]

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