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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would never say this out loud: we chose private school for reasons that have nothing to do with college admissions. Rather, we did it for networking purposes. Our child can meet a future spouse who is guaranteed to have compatible values with our family’s. They might not partner up with someone who attended at the same time as them. Rather, they will stay involved in their school’s alumni association.[/quote]

Stop. Just Stop. [/quote]

Oh no. Please go on. What are the compatible values you are looking for? [/quote]

If you really want honesty on this anonymous message board:

At our private, every family is college-educated, upper middle class or wealthier, has excellent hygiene and has great manners. We all have similar attitudes politically & educationally. The parent population is almost universally two-parent households.

Versus the lovely, serious romantic partner my child might meet in college, and that might be someone who’s from some far-flung rural area; whose parents aren’t college educated; might have a sibling who is a teen mother; has family who isn’t politically, culturally or religiously compatible with our family or who has generational trauma.

Point is, if my child at age 25+ were looking for a serious romantic partner, I’d much prefer they circle back to someone from their private school orbit.

You asked, and I answered.[/quote]

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