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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why private schools.  Sadly.[/quote]

Where people throw their money around to silence everyone who disagrees with what they want to do with the direction of the school.  My way or the high way.  Money talks, and only the parents with money have the right to talk.  And they may be able to get their kids off the hook where kids of lesser mortals would get expelled.  It is never their children's fault, and no one would every suggest that it possibly was.

You know, I'll take Basis with its crazies posting on our list serve any day, where the only kind of prestige students recognize is academic, and pretty soon, we are going to give you a run for your money in terms of college admissions - although kids will probably take offers of merit scholarships over going to the Ivies which do not offer them, but I have hopes for our present 8th graders - the third graduating class,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

If this is the way you want to feel better about the enormous amounts of money you are spending for private school before you even start to fork over college tuition, good on ya.

Fact remains, kids who do their best and do well in advanced courses at Basis will get tremendous attention from colleges that your trust fund babies could only have wet dreams about, unless you make that critical phone call.

We are in a different league.  The academic merit, predominantly minority, predominantly in need of financial aid league.  So almost any kids would take the free ride which used to be offered at Chapel Hill in some kind of honors program (no details, maybe it no longer does, but my friend who took that free ride went to NCS over HYP.)

You are in a private school not because of nuts on the list serve, but because you do not want your larla exposed to anyone who is eligible for free and reduced meals (FARMS) and oooooooooooooooh black!  It is fine for your school to have its token minorities, as long as they behave.  But you would never do what we are doing, taking a risk that our kids will thrive in this kind of diverse, somewhat chaotic environment, while getting stellar educations.[/quote]

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