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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The private elementary schools do not imbue your child with some magical learning advantage.  Especially compared with the top local public elementary schools — which are geographically zoned for the tiniest & wealthiest sections of a county.  Those little pockets are in fact stronger than privates which pull from a variety of backgrounds in order to achieve some semblance of diversity.  [/quote]
Why isn't that reflected in college admissions of those wealthiest families that choose for their kids to attend public HS?[/quote]

Why isn’t what reflected?

In these tiny elementary zones that I am referencing, lots of kids go to private — Big3 and Catholic and all kinds — for middle or high school.   Lots go to TJ/Blair publics.  Lots go to their local public high school which is a gazillion times bigger than the elementary.

And, shock, some of those kids are legacies and athletes and they get into Top 10 and Top 20 from Big 3 or Catholic or TJ or publics.   I do not think your elementary school experience determines where you go to college.  Do you?

My point is only that there is a misperception about the quality of the public school kids because a lot of private school families don’t really understand that, like privates, there is a huge diversity of experiences.  And I think it’s shocking to some that there are elite little bastions of wealth that are entirely segregated by housing that do not allow any diversity of income—and they are public elementary schools.  You have to live in the zone and the zone consists of $2m housing.  This only happens in elementary when the zones are tiny.  And the teachers are excellent and the kids are all bright and motivated.  The kids who left our local elementary school had problems — they weren’t succeeding for some reason and they needed more attention.

I’m not saying that all public elementary schools are better or that public elementary school kids are better prepared.  I’m only trying to point out that there is nuance and misperception. [/quote]

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