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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your DH is missing the point. [b]If you send your kids to public high schools in the DMV area, they will most likely come out with about the same education level as their private school peers and will mix with kids at about the same income level. Have him check out the student parking lots of the local high schools to see what the kids drive if he doesn't believe me. [/b]They will not be slumming with the masses and be exposed to varied income levels and life POVs as he romanticizes.

HOWEVER, you are correct in what they will miss out on is "the club" that private schools offer. Yes, there is a networking advantage that hangs on throughout college and probably beyond.[/quote]

You're wrong about this.  Even Langley HS in McLean is not the same as Potomac school.  The level of wealth at Potomac school is mind blowing.  Big difference when you have a graduation class of less than 100 at Potomac versus 600+ at Langley HS.  Have you seen the new shiny facility at Potomac that was opened in late 2019?  Even Langley HS does not have that.[/quote]

It’s not so much wealth as learning to show respect and decorum, which is just not at all expected in most public schools - even the “good” ones. I find the most respectful kids are the African American kids (esp boys) born into middle class or affluent black families. As my son told me once, “My black friends’ moms don’t allow them to get away with shit.” [/quote]

That is because manners and décorum are first and foremost taught and reinforced at home regardless of where you go to school.  African American kids(especially boys) get judged first on stereotype of being black before folks actually take a chance to get to know them.  Middle class and affluent African American families know this and raise their kids with the appropriate manners and decorum because they know despite wealth their kids walk into the room with at least one strike against them that they have to prove  isn’t warranted.[/quote]

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