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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins after graduating from my Ivy.  Had a great time in college. Seldom felt like I was behind the curve academically.

My[b] outdoorsy, hippie parents (former Peace Corps volunteers) [/b]were hostile to TV, so my siblings and I read a great deal.  My siblings went to Harvard. My brother tutored me in math. We did a lot of hiking/backpacking, took music lessons at school and played in a regional orchestra, worked as youth sports referees and lifeguards, served on student government, did readings at our church etc. to build confidence. [b] Our HS pals mostly came from working-class families, yet went on to Yale, Georgetown, MIT etc.[/b]  We had many terrific AP teachers, mostly close to retirement.  My college pals were mostly on boatloads of fi aid themselves.

I don't want my children in private school with droves of white and UMC or rich classmates.  I don't mind tutoring them in APS, and neither does my spouse (Stanford grad from low-income immigrant family).

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Ah I see you, your parents chose to live a life of hippie poverty, they were educated and fairly accomplished to make it to Peace Corp.

My working class classmates mostly went to local community college (1/3), military (1/4), or worked as local trades or at factory in town (1/3).  That remainder of 9% went to mostly state universities, and 1 Ivy (me), and 1 to Wake Forest.  Where the heck did you have a working class neighborhood with that high caliber education?  I'm guess this is New England?[/quote]

Yes, New England mill town, with a large swathe of farmland in the school district.  A minority of my classmates went on to 4-year BA programs, yet this was a community where it wasn't unusual for the children of farmers and mill workers to go on to blue chip colleges.  Our HS teams played, and often beat, area prep school teams in lacrosse, crew, field hockey etc.

I don't picture my children working all that hard at a school where more than 90% of the families are prosperous.  We'd much rather take our chances with APS, thanks. 
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It's clear now, your "bottom 1/3" of your state's schools, when your state has nation-leading public schools is very different than even a mid-tier public school in a state of subpar public schools.

No idea why you prosperous parents sending their kids to private would expect their kids to coast; they want a rigorous academic education, maybe back in the 80s when you were in HS they were finishing schools but certainly no longer.[/quote]

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