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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]cmon - have no dog in this fight but sooo obvious in my wealthy DCUM enclave that a large majority of parents send their kids to privates because they feel it puts them on a path for a T15.  When this doesn’t materialize and they are applying to - horror upon horror - Clemson, U Delaware, Gettysburg - they are almost embarrassed at the cocktail parties or water cooler.  Larlo going to a 50th ranked national university or LAC wasn’t part of the plan and doesn’t impress anyone, and $200k+ of high school tuition feels like it may have been a bit much.  They can’t reconcile how their kid is going to Skidmore while the local public is sending kids to Vandy TO.  Then the defensiveness, complaining, and finger pointing starts - grade deflation, URMs, “I’m just happy they are getting a better education than everyone else”, etc etc[/quote]

5 years ago I would have believed you PP. Bit now everyone is in the same boat and horror of these so-called lesser schools has greatly diminished

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This. 5 years ago maybe this would be true. But everyone who knows anything about the current state of college admissions knows how impossible and unpredictable admissions have become. Where a student ends up says more about the process rather than being a reflection on the student. This is true for both public and private school students [/quote]

I believe the pp two posts above about the finger pointing. What I don't understand, either, is the need to bash public school kids as unprepared slackers on your way to these T50 schools.

- I'm the poster who suggested that private schools need to talk to their admins about grade deflation and weighting, and you private school parents seemed to like that. [/quote]

are there posts in this thread that are actually bashing public school kids?

Can you point them out?

I see a lot of private school posters saying that private school kids have a harder time getting top grades due to the ways grades are averaged between quarters and the teachers who limit As.

I have high schoolers in both public and private (so no dog in this fight) and this is 100% true in my experience.

My Big3 kids goes to a school that won't graduate a single kid with a 4.0 this year.  My public schoolers (great public!) goes to a school that will graduate 20% of the class with an unweighted 4.0.

That is fact, not bashing.

What I don't recall seeing in this thread is any private school parents bashing public school kids.  Please point out the posts.

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Good grief. Now you're going to pretend you didn't see the posts claiming "my private school kid who works until 2 every night says his public school friends never do any homework and they still get As." Maybe you even wrote these posts. Perhaps you guys have realized it's more acceptable to bash public school parents on this thread than their successful kids.

I've suspected for the past 10 or so pages that at least one "private school parent" is a troll or a disappointed kid. This "request" for others to do work kinda cements that.

So, nobody is going to comb through the thread for you, but take everybody's word for it or start around page 20.

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