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Reply to "Families who can afford private but go public, why?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to private school. The reason I don’t send my kids to private is that you can tell who the smart and dumb kids are already in 1st or 2nd grade. Over the next eight years, that didn’t change. Everyone learned a lot (well, some more than others) but at graduation, the rank ordering of the kids from smartest to dumbest was virtually unchanged. I had friends in public who started and ended better off than even some of the smartest kids in private. The only difference was that there was a higher proportion of very smart kids in private. But private didn’t make them that way. They would have done equally well in public (that’s my hypothesis anyway). Private school is just a self selection effect. No treatment effect unless you’re coming from a really bad public (like, drugs and constant class disruptions)[/quote] This is 100% true.[/quote]
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