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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The code comes from having been raised in a house and community where people are the types who can get into and afford those private high schools. Your kid is already "in" the club where they teach the code because you and your spouse are their parents. These are the kids for whom going to Harvard instead of Michigan doesn't change their life trajectory, like you read about in the studies on how college impacts future life chances.

For everyone who doesn't understand the concept of the code, go watch Six Degrees of Separation with Will Smith.
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This. My middle class hard working parents would have been better off joining our local country club and sending me to the honors program at the local public school (rather than private) in order to introduce me into wealthier society in our area.

Many of the wealthier students I did know in private school ended up making a mess of their lives with drug addictions and / or sexual assault convictions later in life (when they were finally charged.)

It did teach me that there is definitely an unspoken code and my family did not have enough money to participate or for me to be taught the code. Attending private school also taught me how many wealthy people are hypocrites. [/quote]

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