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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think 13:20 had a good list but I also think some people have lots of cash to spare and figure going to a school you apply to and pay for must be better than a school that’s free and takes everyone.

Basically a designer label for your kid’s education [/quote]

I actually think the same thing but have a somewhat different take on it.

There’s a certain set of striver parents who work extremely hard and make a whole lot of money.  They’re wholly focused on their careers and don’t have a lot of extra time for their kids.  They often wait to have kids until they’re in their mid to late 30s or older, and by the time the kids hit high school they’re in or close to their 50s and are so far removed from being young and so consumed with career and achievement that it never even occurs to them to consider public school no matter how good the school is.  It’s another way to justify working so hard and soften the guilt they feel for neglecting their kids for all those years.  “We do this for the kids,” they lie to themselves.

It’s an insane way of thinking. [/quote]

This is actually NOT a thing. Most parents at our local public has their kids in their mid to late thirties and will be in their 50s when their kids are in high school.  We left public for private and the age range is the same - oddly it skews a slightly younger.  And a good number are stay at home moms so there is no career  “distracting them from their children” and making them “so busy” that they can’t consider public school. This is a really far left theory that makes no sense.

Whew!  It is funny the things people tell themselves so they can sleep at night. [/quote]

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