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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools teache one skill really, really well and that's to be cynical.  Kids watch as adults have to put up with tons of bullshit regarding testing and student behavior.  Despite what they'll say in public, kids coming from public schools have less empathy because  of the crap they've observed.  If you did some of the things in private school that you can get away with in public you'd be gone like s..t through a goose.  Privates aren't perfect but there are, especially in DC, many folks willing to take your place.   Get out of line the man he comes and takes you away.  If you bring a weapon to a private school it's goodbye.  In publics they'll try and cover it up and give you in school detention.  It wasn't always that way but that's the way it is now.  Girls can be sexually harassed at publics ...wouldn't happen for a day in privates.  GFL with your public schools.  I'll sell my plasma before my kids sit in a BS public school.  [/quote]

Well, there is a counter-anecdote to every anecdote. I have never encountered as many world-weary, cynical, condescending, too-cool teenagers as I knew at my exclusive private school. We had a world-class string quartet come perform and the kids in the audience laughed at them. Kids bullied each other massively and relentlessly for not being good enough at sports, not rich enough, not from the right neighborhood. Kids were obsessed with money, and as high schoolers already planned to go into finance and law because there was no big money to be made in other professions. I know these people as adults and they have not changed. I think the data actually show that the 1% have less empathy than the rest, not more. If I have a good public option (and I do), I don't think I want to subject my less-than-rich, less-than-sporty children to the attitudes so common at elite privates. Watch your own attitude, you who use "bullshit," "crap," "sh.t," and "GFL" (good f*cking luck). Sure you're not a teenager?[/quote]

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