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But if we are going to go there: this is not much of a counter-example. The socialite mother and pompous professional father in your example are not actually educationally disinterested. Enrolling in private school for bragging rights or easing one's conscience is still reflective of a family culture where education is valued: not in itself, perhaps, but as a meal ticket to respect, a job, and status. The socialite and the bragger are not interested in "education" the way that I would use the word as an idealistic person. But they are going to have expectations of their kids that promote them at least completing homework and earning the gold stars handed out by the powers-that-be.

This is decidely not the same thing as parents who are neglectful in different ways, at least not if we are discussing educational outcomes.

Also, although I share your ire against privileged persons without real interest in the arts or children,[b] I think we all have to admit that real people are not so one-dimensional as you imply in your example. [/b]Even if there is some truth in your accusation.[/quote]

If you are ready to ditch the idea that "real people are not one-dimensional" then you should definitely drop the assumption that underlies most of your posts -- that private school parents care about education while public school parents don't. Drop it STAT, because this assumption makes you look like a total twit. An ignorant, total twit.[/quote]

I think you missed the fact that I am actually arguing for your point, in part. I don't think pubic school parents fail to value education or that a quality public education cannot be found. My point was simply that because publi schools take on the task of educating both kids from interested families and relatively disinterested or disadvantaged families, their stats will be lower and their problems different. Thus I, while a supporter of the private school option, do not think it is fair to say that privates are alwys in a whole other or lowr league from the privates. The privates have the unfair statistical advantage of starting off with a pool of students who are supported educationally at home...or at least hail from families were care to and can see out lternative options. If privates dealt with thewhole population, theb wed have an interesting experiment on seeing if tey do better. But w don't have aclear test case.

Do I make sense now? I think you are reading into my argument or maybe I'm just explaining it badly.[/quote]

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