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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Maybe because those parents know how to motivate their kids to learn. [b]After all, higher SES status, usually equals higher level of education.[/b] I am not the one pushing my DC in school (me with the lone bachelor degree). It is my husband, who has multiple Ivy League degrees who does this. We are well off, but not wealthy (well I guess that is relative). [/quote]

I feel like this analysis misses a lot of folks.  [b]There are plenty of highly educated people, particularly in the DC area, who are not high SES because they chose public service or nonprofit work rather than the private sector. [/b] It also misses highly motivated immigrants, who may not be high earning but who care deeply about their kids' academic success.  I'm a highly educated nonprofit worker, with a boss with double Ivy degrees, and coworkers from some of the best graduate programs in the country.  None of us are high SES unless we are married to someone in the private sector, but all of us have high achieving kids (in public school, no less).  [/quote]

Education is the E in SES. If you are a highly-educated person, you are not low SES, even if you earn minimum wage.[/quote]

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