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[quote=Anonymous]Won't they just self-segregate?  She can't be the only one near the bottom.  In my school (public - but lots of wealthy kids there), kids totally segregated by income level.  Now granted the popular kids were all at the higher income level (funny  how economic status = social status even among kids), but once you got over not being popular, you had a great time with friends in similar situations as you.  As long as there are two or three moderate incomes in her class, she'll be ok.

We are not sending ds to an elite private school, but he will face the same in our neighborhood - we live in a condo around multimillion dollar homes.  It makes me nervous, but since my dh and I don't care at all about money beyond wanting enough so that ours lives work smoothly, which they mostly do, I am hoping he'll be ok.

BTW, My mom and her aunt went to an expensive private school on a professor's salary.  My mom grew up thinking money didn't matter cause she didn't have any and her sister grew up wanting nothing more than money cause she didn't have any (and she got it).  Not sure the lesson in that . . .[/quote]

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