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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a big 3, and my experience was what has been reflected in these comments.  No one knew who got financial aid and how much - particularly in lower grades - and everyone was generally friendly (or as friendly as tweens/teens can be to each other) but in the lower grades, where parents dictated the friendships a bit more, it absolutely broke out by SES.  Mostly that was very innocuous - it was because the wealthier kids lived in the same upper NW neighborhoods, had parents who worked together, had gone to the same preschools, had siblings at the same school who were also friends, etc.  As we got older, it became much less stratified - but by the same token financial differences also became more obvious to us as kids (who had the fancy shoes, the fancy backpack, the fancy purse, etc.).  FWIW, I have to imagine it shakes out the same way at any school.  Also I was on the lower end of the SES scale and it really didn't bother me. There were plenty of kids to be friends with. 
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This is why uniforms or a dress code such as Holton, Landon and Sta are so important. There's such a variation in clothing especially for girls and  even girls that are wearing sweatpants if the from Lululemon and cause $100 is a big difference in someone buying them at target. [/quote]

PP you are responding to - I agree that there is value in dress codes/uniforms, but you can still tell who has the hot backpack, or the nice sunglasses, who got a new car for their 16th birthday, and went to Paris for Spring Break.  I don't think SES is easy to hide and once kids are older they become more aware of it.  The good news is, they also decide their own friendships and stuff like that doesn't matter to a lot of them.[/quote]

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