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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my experience across public and private in this region, the answer is that a “nerdy, quirky” kid will feel more at home in public. Among the wealthier set at private, families tend to discourage these traits and encourage sports, extroversion, leadership, and to a certain extent conformity. Your miles may vary.[/quote]

Totally opposite experience. Being smart and intellectually engaged is rewarded at rigorous private schools. Not at publics...at all. [/quote]

The wealthier set encourages smart, intellectually engaged, and sports, extroversion, leadership, and conformity. It's great to be smart as long as you're an all-American kid who's a great future candidate for Harvard and a Rhodes scholarship, basically. But that set seems a lot less friendly to weird geeks.[/quote]

Depends on which “wealthy set” we’re talking about. One group, which includes my exH and his extended family, is decidedly not in the Tad the Square-Jawed Quarterback set.   Neither are any of their good friends. They’re all multi millionaires and include many “Washington famous” names.   Some went to private, some to stuyvesant, all to 3 Ivy schools and grad schools.  Most are nerdish non-athletes with great personalities.

Of course, you’re not wrong about the values of other wealthy ppl.  Just need to dispel the idea that there’s just one way to go about this[/quote]

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