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[quote=Anonymous]Eh, I grew up in a rural area with shitty schools, although my folks were relatively high SES.  My parents briefly toyed with the idea of local private schools, when my older siblings hit middle and high school, but ultimately decided it wasn't much increase in quality (if any).  These were the sort of private schools that were founded primarily for wealthy white parents to avoid integrated schools.  And we were doing pretty well in our shitty schools. No one seriously considered uprooting and moving the whole family just to be in a better school district; we would have had to move at least a hundred miles.  We gave serious side-eye to another wealthy family, that had their kids commute to fancy private school an hour and a half each way everyday in a nearby "city".

My impression is that the calculus has always been a bit different in urban areas, where lots of high SES folks have lots of choices and segregation/desegregation/resegregation and disparities in opportunity in relatively close-by areas have been hot button issues for decades now.  When you can dramatically improve your kids education by moving 5 miles, this is something more parents are likely to obsess over.[/quote]

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