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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is at a "Big 3," with 2 feds for parents. We're comfortable enough, but certainly not wealthy, and school covers about 50% in aid. First and foremost, we value the education DC is receiving, are grateful for the opportunity, and are very open with our child about the realities of the range of wealth and poverty in this country. DC has always known they won't be one of the "rich kids," and won't have all the same experiences as those kids do, but we also do what we can to make their life enjoyable at school and away from it, including as many extras as we can reasonably afford. I think we'd all be unhappy if either quality of school or quality of life was vastly out of balance with the other. (Bravo to the parents who sacrifice everything for education. And we certainly make sacrifices. But I know myself, so I feel fortunate that we don't have to do it constantly.)

Of our family members, I probably have the most discomfort around real wealth, and I'll admit the first few years felt a bit uncomfortable, not because of the families there, but because of my own assumptions/biases. But even then--and definitely now--the reality is that parents are just not as directly involved at middle school and beyond as we were in the elementary years. So I find that other people's wealth is far less of an issue than I thought, just because I'm not around it as much as I expected to be. And when I have been, it's never been uncomfortable, and people have been nothing but decent regardless of their relative wealth.

Bottom line, for me, is that my own feelings about it all haven't really mattered, and it's never been an issue anyway. What really matters is how your child is likely to handle it day-to-day.

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I should have added that DC went to public for elementary. Otherwise things could have been way different. But I believe OP isn't talking about private for elementary anyway. [/quote]

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