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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am wealthy, well-educated and white.  I send my kids to a private school that is quite expensive for those kids not receiving significant financial aid.  Their school is "majority minority" though SES diversity is much less.  I donate significant amounts to their school to enhance financial aid, a bit more than half of a tuition cost per year plus gifts for capital projects.  I have absolutely no moral problem with our sending our kids to this school and supporting this type of school.  Why?  Because it is an excellent school that actually supports the learning of all kids who walk through the door.  Because the kids learn critical thinking, writing, and analysis a a high level at young ages.  Because the math and science classes are challenging and insightful.  Because the school encourages the kids at every stage to use their priviledge to do good and, equally important, prepares them with the tools to do so.  My much more formally diverse public school did none of this.  Rather there was lots of racial diversity, and near aboslute segregation.  Condescention and undermining of any student efforts to address social (or, frankly, safety) issues.  I could go on.

We are very fortunate to be professionally successful and our jobs pay very well.  There is little I would rather spend my money on than our kids' school.  Kids actually leave with tools to make it in a competitive world, and the graduates I know are productive, civic-minded and kind people.  Increasing access to schools like my kids' is the way that I choose to support education efforts.  Others choose different ways.  [/quote]

So you are maybe helping one child get a better education than they can afford? It's all fine, but don't expect kudos for helping the world by focusing on the very best for your kids.[/quote]

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