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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can see many parents that their kids couldn’t get into GDS, Maret, and Sidwell 🤣.[/quote]

My kid went to and graduated from Sidwell and I agree these environments created a kind of manufactured diversity that is really about appearing diverse wile maintaining remarkable homogeneity in socio-economic status, educational background of parents, and even political and social attitudes.

You see the same thing at top colleges (like the one my DD now attends). It's a lot of very similar people and group think, but with a veneer if diversity to deflect criticism and make a nicer picture.

The education is top notch, though, and you can't deny that is partly *because* of the socio-economic homogeneity and consistency in political outlook. These schools don't have to educate kids with unsupportive, uneducated parents, or fight local groups trying to ban books or even entire subjects from being taught. It makes it easier to have high academic standards and to trust experienced educators on crafting a curriculum that will truly prepare students for future academic and professional challenges.

But it's not real diversity and it's disingenuous for parents or educators at these schools to pretend it's a diverse environment. It's not. And that's a major reason parents choose these schools for their kids.[/quote]

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