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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I laugh when public school parents try to act like it's the same experience as a private school.[/quote]

[i][b]I laugh[/b] at the college admissions outcomes[/i]. My public school kid is at a USNWR top 5 school. [i]DC's friends at the Big 3 [b]are now at lower-tier SLACs[/b][/i], except for the one who got recruited from the Big 3 for athletics.[/quote]

This attitude -- articulated and shared by public and private school parents alike -- that a child is a failure if they attend any college or university outside of the Ivy League, or a USNWR top-10 school, is poisonous.  God forbid that our sons or daughters should find themselves at some place so unworthy and pitiful as a "lower-tier SLAC", or worse yet, a public university!  That kind of abject failure surely merits our "laugh[s]" and derision.

Perhaps the real problem is parents -- public and private school parents alike -- who have such a narrow world view of success and accomplishment, and who perceive nothing less than the top-tier, very-most prestigious schools as acceptable outcomes.  Is it any wonder that our children are stressed, overworked, anxious, and in some cases depressed?

I do not care whether your child attends private or public school, I will think no less of them whether they attend Yale or Cornell, Swarthmore or Alabama, Berkeley or Washington University.  I judge a person by the content of their character, their attitude towards others, their work ethic, and many other attributes that are just as important as where they attend school. [/quote]

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