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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So important to have an ambitious peer group. That is the reason we ended up moving to an expensive zip code. Unfortunately, institutional racism and historic inequity notwithstanding, income and ambition are closely correlated. [/quote]

I posted on the other thread and wrote this and was basically told I was bragging. We moved from a low SES neighborhood to a high SES neighborhood. The kids and families are night and day. In the old neighborhood, many kids don’t even go to college or may end up at community college. In our new school, my kids are surrounded by kids whose parents are very well educated. The parents attended top universities and grad schools. We are in touch with a few people from our old school and they may visit George Mason and Virginia tech. In my son’s friend group, many parents attended Ivy or other similar top colleges, are physicians, lawyers, executives, etc. in the old neighborhood, Penn state may be the goal. UPenn would be a top choice at our school. Many people in the old neighborhood probably would not know the difference between Penn State and UPenn.[/quote]

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