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Sorry, I mean if the school is secular, do most families tend to go to religious services. Basically I'm trying to get a feel if it is common for families in this demographic to attend religious services. If your curious, I don't have a child who attends private school, nor is it on the radar. I'm asking purely for sociological reasons.[b] I recently read a book that made an assertion about highly educated families and religious attendance[/b], that I find a bit hard to believe. I'm trying to get a sense for whether the responses on this board support the author's claim. [/quote]

I think the reason a lot of people find this thread kind of ridiculous is that your question is logically flawed and you're asking it in the wrong place. You are assuming that highly educated families send their kids to private school. That is a faulty assumption on a number of levels. Maybe you are assuming that highly educated equals high income and that more high income families send their kids to private school. Still faulty because highly educated doesn't equal high income, necessarily. Sure, lawyers make a lot of money, but it is very controversial to call them highly educated, unless you are defining highly educated as anyone with a Master's level of education (Most measures in sociology only consider PhDs to be highly educated, and they don't make, on average, the salary of a JD). If you assume highly educated is anyone with a post baccalaureate degree, then you further skew lower your definition of average income, and damaging further the assumption that highly educated=high income.

You also have the problem of assuming high income people are the same people as households with inherited money and that they all send their kids to private school. So really, your assumptions are so huge that there is no way to ask that question here and get a valid answer.

[b]Of course, if you are just trolling here to bait the religious or the lawyers, or the private school parents, with this thread, have at it, I guess. Kind of a dumb thread though.
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I don't see where the OP baited anyone.  She simply asked a question - Do you go to church?  Do other families at your school go to church?  [/quote]

Not that OP. But looks like she was just tossing out possible explanations for why OP asked this question in a forum that's obviously not going to provide any meaningful answers.[/quote]

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