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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
The anger that you often see on this board is that after paying $30,000 + for our own DCs to get an education we are then asked to pay more for your children.

Unless your child scored none wrong on the ERB, pipe down. Your school is only giving FA to bright kids and is only doing it so that their test scores will make the rest of the school look good. No one is being &quot;given&quot; any thing. It is the brain power of these bright kids that earns your school its reputation, maintains its reputation and, later largely establishes the intellectual environment in which your child will be educated. My DC gets a lot of aid and spends most of his class time graciously helping his classmates who &quot; don't understand&quot;.[/quote]

You mistakenly believe that the only bright kids are the financial aid kids.  Sorry full freight here and my kid scored pretty damn close to perfect on the ERBs.  Don't for a minute fool yourself in thinking that the kids whose parents pay their way are not also pulling their own intellectual weight.  [b]&lt;-- Ditto[/b]
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That is true; I know some very bright kids who have upper middle class parents ( 800K and above income) The private school's problem is that there aren't enough of these kids. Darn, pesky genetics. To paraphrase someone on this forum who loves to quote stats: the 99.9th% is just that. Brains and talent are the only things that money cannot buy and that is just life. To get enough bright kids to maintain their academic rigor "private" schools need to level the playing field a bit with FA. They realized this decades ago when college admissions started getting more competitive. 60 years ago half of STA's senior class went to Harvard or Yale and probably same with Sidwell. They probably did not take the SAT or the ERB or the Otis Lenon or any of it, but  as our former fearless leader illustrated, prep schools had their fare share of the dull and the dense and the dim- witted. That is less true today because their reputations can no longer afford that kind of largess. No one is being "given" anything any more at any of these schools. Every one has to be offing something.[/quote]

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