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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the reasons why Gs are always trying to get their kids into the best school districts?

Is it mainly the 'better' peer group? If so, what is the 'better' peer group? kids whose parents are professionals? [/quote]

Because we value knowledge. Much like the Es value power and the Ls value money, knowledge is the most sought after commodity for Gs.[/quote]

No, I don't think this is it. I'm a G. It's because we're hoping our kids will make the leap from G to E by being among the "right" peer group. In this area, there are public school zones where E families actually use public schools. If you are a G or even an L who can afford a home in those zones, your child can hopefully make a lateral move just by being the right place at the right time and knowing the right people. [/quote]

You think like that because you're not really a G. You can't wrap your head around the fact that this particular scale only has loose associations with wealth.[/quote]

Sure, you can tell yourself that. I am a G2, but since there's no blood test for it I guess you can't know whether I'm [i]really[/i] a G. My parents were G2's. My father, an immigrant, always hoped we'd make the leap to E, but none of us chose to pursue the fields that would have placed us in that category, and, thanks to family money, we live comfortably enough as G2's to not have felt compelled to give up more meaningful work for money as E3's. I suspect, like my father, many G parents hope that their children will at the very least remain stable in their current social positions, and that is why parents are so concerned with school districts. It has nothing whatsoever to do with valuing knowledge above all else. You're in denial. When talking about K-12 school districts, we're talking about valuing the demographics of a school, not the talent of the staff nor the depth of the curriculum (curriculum is the same across school districts--you can get better curriculum at top privates, but not by changing school zones within the Metro area, and the best staff is usually sent to the neediest schools rather than the schools with the wealthiest demographics).

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