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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Keeping the food theme, maybe like this:

The public school menu varies, but generally it is warmed over slop. The cafeteria in which the slop is eaten is chaotic; sometimes there are fights, sometimes the slop gets knocked down and stepped in.

There is a class of mid-tier privates where you eat your meal at grandma's house. The food is nothing fancy, but home-cooked, traditional meals. Sometimes there is pie. The kitchen and the dining room are long-lived in, and rather dingy. Pictures of long-gone relatives line the walls.

Then you have the expensive privates: the dining room is ornate, a silver candelabra in the center of the table. The guests are witty, discussing the latest in fashions. The waiter comes out with the food on silver platter. He lifts the cover and behold! It is the same slop you would get at the public school down the road.[/quote]

We don't send our kids to expensive privates so I have no idea about that, but I will say that not all publics offer warmed over slop. It just depends on the district and the school. Public schools are generally not like palaces, but I think they can be the equivalent of a good, nutritious meal in a solid middle class or upper middle class household. Good quality ingredients, served somewhat simply, seasoned reasonably well, but perhaps with some shortcuts taken in preparation because both parents work and time and energy are not infinite. The bread is store bought but from the bakery, not the commercial bread aisle, and some of the veggies are from frozen (but studies show that frozen vegetables have basically the same nutritional content as fresh and are better than canned).

While other public schools are the equivalent of drive-thru from a restaurant with multiple health code violations. There is a broad variety in public just as there is in private.[/quote]

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