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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]So being in the same classroom doesn't really change their knowledge/awareness [/b]of the fact that there are some people who have all the things they can imagine. [/quote]

Oh this is completely untrue.    Sitting inches away from phenomenally wealthy people 8 hours a day, 9 months a year absolutely DOES "change their awareness" of income disparity.    I have this distinct feeling you've  never set foot in a school like St. Alban's or Potomac.  amiright?

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Um, no. DC is a private school lifer at one of the upper NW independents, but I'm only talking about our experience. Our child was plenty aware of the lifestyles of Leo DiCaprio and Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift and the Kardashians from watching TV and reading the magazines at the checkout line.  No one at these schools lives like that - parents are too old to hop on their private jet to a rave in Ibiza.  Washington is a government/political town, not a center of fashion or movies or celebrity.  We're public interest/non-profit types and DC has always gone to our organization's fundraisers/galas and met very wealthy board members and famous donors and celebrity spokesmen. DC understands that we work for them as much as we work with them. But they're just people (though often freakishly good looking). We have had conversations with DC when he was pretty young about people with more money and even more conversations about people with less.

Why the fear of DC going to school with children from wealthier families?  Do you think the income distribution gets more equal in college? If you were at a public school, would you teach your child to look down on children from poorer families?  Would you undermine their family values?   If not, then why do you think a wealthy family would teach their child to look down on yours?  And no matter where a child goes to school or relatively well-off you are, you're going to have the unpleasantness of telling your child no to something they want because you can't afford it or don't want to spend the money.  It's one of the basic lessons in maturity. [/quote]

+1,000. Thank you!  [/quote]

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