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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up this way...private school with all upper middle -upper class people (not in this area.) I think the danger is thinking that everyone lives that way and living a very insulated life.

Thankfully, I was smart enough in high school to regularly volunteer at soup kitchens, Habitat for Humanity, etc and realized there is a big world out there not everyone looked like me, grew up like me, or had the privileges that I did. it really shaped the way I viewed myself, my school, my upbringing, and the world. Now I am a teacher in SE - a long way from that private school and I love it.[/quote]
OP, if it works for you, that's fine but I think for others of us, like this pp, there are disadvantages.  I grew up like this pp and was pretty much scared of urban poor and working class neighborhoods growing up.  Later in life I made a point of seeking out different experiences and it has opened up my world a lot.  Years ago, I used to be afraid to drive east of the park, let alone east of the river.  Nowadays, I'm comfortable in all wards of the city.  But it took a lot of work to get there.

I found getting out of that homogeneous world liberating - but that doesn't mean it's a bad place for your kids to go to school.  It's a great place to grow up!  It's just that like with everything there are tradeoffs and a big tradeoff for me was being afraid of neighborhoods different from mine.  But those are my priorities.  And you can certainly broaden your kids' perspective by taking them to volunteer at soup kitchens and Habitat for Humanity.  Just trying to explain why it's important to some of us to live and work in a different environment.[/quote]

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