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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's interesting how so many parents in this thread don't want to send their kids to private because they don't want their child to be around snooty private school people, but yet are insufferably smug about that fact.  LOL.  [/quote]

It's a real issue though regardless of how you phrase it. I don't want my children to grow up spoiled and thinking they are entitled to a certain type of lifestyle as an adult. Now I do not believe that every private school student suffers from this problem. But I do think it's more likely to occur in an environment where teachers and admin. are naturally more sensitive to the issue of $ and the idea of "paying customers." I do think high performing students are more likely to learn to be tough and resilient in a public school where resources are scarcer. I want my kids to be the type who learn the value of visiting their professors during office hours and actively taking advantage of opportunities on offer rather than believing that opportunities should fall into their laps, kwim?[/quote]

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