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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know people who are deemed as highly intelligent  who buy Teslas, but their kids go to very crappy schools.

I don’t know what they’re thinking. Maybe that education is not important, maybe they think academics are not that important and they are teaching kids the necessary skills themselves. Who knows.

[b]In our private school many kids go to the same state schools as the public school kids.[/b][/quote]

Aren't you sort of contradicting yourself here? Why does it matter if a kid goes to private school if he or she will just end up at VT, JM, or College Park anyway?[/quote]

Because it’s not about the college, at least for me. I want to provide a thriving environment for my kid for 12 years that are formative development years.

My colleague drives a Tesla while his kids experience  fights with hair pulling, smashing bodies into walls and floors, regular lockdowns for gun threats, low academic standards, prevalent drugs, etc.

I drive a Honda, but my kid is in a calm learning environment with high academic standards, teachers who work in making learning joyful, kids that are
motivated to succeed.[/quote]

I think with colleges it's also a very different situation: after our private kids go to MIT, Calitech, Berkeley, Duke, Cornell. Many top kids have SAT around 1500 which opens up doors into these colleges. Even when families send their kids to a state school, kids perform way better while in college. Some skip whole first year in college and already have google CS certifications at age 19; others study on top of their class and are in general very career oriented. It gets into your blood during all these years in private that education, career is what you focus in younger age. All families are similarly professionally oriented. I do agree that kids are less socially connected but it works for me that my child is not partying and goes home to study after school robotically. Better than drugs[/quote

Way to raise a nerd ][/quote]

And he is happy and proud to be a nurd, doesn't care about "popularity", has Instagram or tweets. Calls it all BS and "noise" [/quote]

He’s a loser [/quote]

Not according to his state championships medals on display in his bedroom. Just a very serious guy[/quote]

In.what? Underwater basket weaving [/quote]

I am not obliged to provide information on my child's sport and whereabouts. [/quote]

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