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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think most rich people are a$$holes as previous posters have suggested.  There are some who come from generational wealth who just never even think about public schools because their families have always done private.

There are others—the majority of DCUM private school parents, I suspect—who are “strivers.”  They went to top colleges, work very hard, have high incomes, etc., and aren’t around all that much for their kids.  To them, the logical next step in the striver culture is to put their kids in private.  They do it both because they think it’s necessary for their kids to be as “successful” as them—success being defined, of course, as admission to a top college and ultimately landing a prestige job—and because they have become used to thinking that money and nice things solves all problems and somewhere inside them hope that private schooling makes up for their not being around all that much to actually parent because they’re too focused on career.

The rat race, in other words.  It’s particularly crazy around here. [/quote]

They are definitely strivers. Most of them didn’t even go to elite private schools themselves, which makes their takes on public schools even more mind boggling and inconsistent.[/quote]

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