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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Answer:  In the early formative educational years choosing a private school with exclusively upper middle class kids would deprive my children of the true competitive landscape (academic and intellectual, creative, social and athletic) found in bigger and more diverse ponds.

I prefer early vaccination (exposure and immunization) for my children with this broad experience for life's long haul rather than raising them in a bubble environment.  This approach, as in my upbringing, will make my children my resilient for life's unexpected turns and curve balls in the long run.

This is the approach I prefer to adopt rather than throwing them into the unrealistic coccoon of an elite private school from Pre-K through middle school.

After early immunization I believe many kids are well prepared (intellectually, socially, emotional and physically) to re-enter some of these elite establishments in high school and/or college to witness and gain exposure to how some of their "entitled" and non-immunized brethen think, behave and act -- also a very useful experience for life's long haul.[/quote]

I found this post interesting because I had this exact experience, and think it's true.  I went to a solid middle class elem public school, junior high, and a very rough high school (gang members, metal detectors, police staffing after school).  I am Caucasian, which was a minority, so much so that people yelled "Honky" at me in the halls, snapped my bra, knocked me over while running track.  (It all stopped when the cool girls overheard me telling my friend that a black guy was "hot" at a bb game; and they realized that I was indeed human.)  FF to sophomore year of HS, where I ended up on the opposite side of town in one of the top public high schools in the nation.  I was shocked and sickened by the fancy cars, the nurse leaving work to go to a wealthy student's home because he forgot his homework, and the principal who stood on stage and said that our school was "exceptionally diverse because we have students from the UK, France, Norway, Switzerland."  (My mom forwarded me an article a decade later when he was charged with making racist statements.)  I feel that my earlier experience grounded me, but I am grateful for having changed schools because it motivated me to do better.  HOWEVER, this was in the case of not having parents who were navigating my life for me.  Now that I'm living in NW DC, I strive to give my kids grounding experiences because they are living a way more privileged life than I ever did.  (Though I get that some may argue it's impossible for me to do just by virtue of living in NW DC.  I'm okay with that.)[/quote]

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