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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Part of how deeply stupid this conversation is is that “private schools” are not monolithic and most don’t look like Sidwell or Dalton. There are many smaller schools, parochial and independent, where per pupil funding looks a lot more like public schools. DC spends just shy of $22k per pupil. Lots of Catholic schools cost half that, and have better educational outcomes. Does that make you real mad, too? Or is it just the few Sidwells and Daltons that get ya steamed?[/quote]

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This is why the article is ridiculous. So few privates are like the one the author is referring to. [/quote]

For goodness sake, read, people. This article is specifically focused on a handful of elite schools. She’s not talking about your little Catholic school, much as you want to be relevant to this conversation.

Here’s the essence in three sentences:

“The numbers are even more astonishing when you consider that they’re not distributed evenly across the country’s more than 1,600 independent schools but are concentrated in the most exclusive ones—[b]and these are our focus here.[/b]” [she goes on to list the schools by name]

“However unintentionally, these schools pass on the values of our ruling class—chiefly, that a certain cutthroat approach to life is rewarded.”

“But what makes these schools truly ludicrous is their recent insistence that they are engines of equity and even ‘inclusivity.’”
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Well given that the clickbaity title is “pRiVaTe sChOoLs aRe iNdEfEnSiBlE” not “a handful of elite institutions are, duh, populated by the elite” I think PP can be excused.

The fact that a few private schools have vastly more resources than all other schools (public and private) is incredibly obvious. Are the objections really any different than objections to the existence of the Ivy League?

It’s a dumb article that conveys nothing except “omg, rich people continue to consume luxury goods!!!!” [/quote]

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