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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] It will never  NOT be amusing to me watching people who sent their precious cargo to schools like connelly schoolboy the holy child,  tuition: $32,000+ ,or Georgetown day, tuition: $38,000+ , only to have said kids ending up at colleges where 80%+ of the student body is amdd of kids who hail from public schools .

As if that wasn't enough, a good number of them —especially the women—end up with 'Mrs jobs': digital content creator,  social media director etc . Jobs that scream " I'm waiting for some trust fund kid or some financially promising bro to come save me so I can be his glorified cheerleader " . Fellow private school flame outs need not apply.

Ultimately,  people have the right to spend their money as they see fit . But men!! Few things have as lousy a return on investment as private schools. [/quote]

Well, we are considering private for our kid.  The reason is not goal-related, though I know plenty of people who are.  Our kid is a bit of an orchid.  He's doing okay in public, but he does much better with more one-on-one attention, smaller groups, more hand holding.  It's not to get a more amped job, it's to make sure he's growing and enjoying learning.  When you are talking about high SES kids, you might think of private education as a fancy car--the kids get to the same place, but some kids will have more fun on the bus, some kids will enjoy a nice car.  [/quote]

Do you really think that most private school parents send their kids to private for the end of goal of getting into an Ivy League school?  You clearly have never been to a private school or had a kid enrolled in one.  It offers a culture and lifestyle that you can't get in public school.  They want their kids rubbing shoulders with the dad who is an important political appointee; an executive at the World Bank; a rich family that hosts social functions at the country club.  Most of these private school parents don't care if their kid ends up at XYZ state school but up until they are adults, they want complete control over how and where they are socialized and who they socialize with until they graduate high school school.  And since most of them are well heeled enough to foot the private school bill, they don't actually *need* an Ivy League school stamp to "make it in life" like you and your kid(s) probably do.  Just ask any private school family you know - they will be very honest with you about this.  [/quote]

Maybe you will find a few people like this at Sidwell, but this describes precisely nobody I know sending kids to private in real life.

I guess there are some sending their kids to extremely inexpensive privates for social opportunities, where they could get to know the children of the World Bank executive's plumber, instead of the drug dealer around the corner. But I'm not sure that's entirely the group you mean. 
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