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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The cost of attending a top private school (tuition & fees & after school enrichmen plus child care) is almost $40K per year for pre-K.  If the average HHI income is $80K per year; how is it possible for an average family to afford such a privte school?[/quote]

Why would you think private schools are for the average family?[/quote]

NP here, and sadly, I agree.  Private schools have never been for the average family.  The travesty in our education system is not that middle class people can't afford private schools, it's that public schools are atrocious.  That doesn't mean I'm not going to try to find a way to afford a high-quality education for my child, but I do realize that what I'm entitled to and not getting is a decent public option.[/quote]

Another travesity is some people abusing "minority" status.  A woman I know open says she loves that her kids have a Spanish last name because "that Cuban grandmother sure comes in handy checking off the 'Hispanic' box."  Suddenly those kids of 2 lawyers- none of whom could recognized Spanish if they heard it -have preference everywhere.  Colleges recruiters have told her daughter to use it to her full advantage.  That makes me so sad for the daughter of someone else I know who is also a good student but legitimately pulled herself up learning English as a second language and parents with far less income and no highrer ed themselves.  Sometimes those distinctions just aren't evident on paper - they are just 2 Hispanic girls.

Boo.[/quote]

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