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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No snark here, just genuinely trying to understand.  For the PP who talked about keeping private schools "private" or anyone else who opposes FA in all forms, a couple of questions...  
Presumably a school without FA would only have students in something like the top 5% of households in terms of SES.   Is that the ideal for you and why?
Can you see any drawbacks to that scenario?  If not, do you see your child having meaningful exposure to people in other SES brackets?  If so, where? If not, do you see any problems with that?
(asking as a full freight parent who supports FA for a variety of reasons)

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I pay for private school because I want my child to be with children of like minded parents--emphasis on education, respect, good manners.  Placing children of a different SES that do not behave nicely, have the same values can foster resentment in their non FA peers.  And like Obama said about bussing kids around...at the end of the day they have to come back to their home and deal with the problems there.  
If a school gives FA to children with like-minded families and that are ready for the academic rigor then I have no problem with itt.  I only have a problem when they use these minorities as tokens...it's not good for them or for the school.[/quote]

Excuse me, are you a lurker from Peoria or something? I have to ask because I have lived in Washington for 20 years and have [b]NEVER[/b] heard anyone in [b]this town[/b] spew such nonsense as your above post. Are you just being a troll? What is your tactic : post the most grievous thing you can to instigate a response and "up the hits" to the site?

Line by line refute: " Placing children who do not behave nicely may foster resentment in their non FA receiving peers." 
1) not all kids from upper middle class homes (those paying full tuition) are polite. Some yell at their Nanny as if she were dirt. Some bully others. Some stick out their tongue at the teacher when her back is turned. Some use the N word. Some say, "why is Jenny so poor?" Meanwhile Jenny's parents are both doctors , attendings at an inner city hospital and paying off combined 600k in student loans.

2) far from being tokens, the "minorities" uh um... at my  DC's school have Masters degrees from Cambridge and serve in the President's cabinet, are executives at the World Bank, and in some cases royalty. They also give ten of thousands a year to the FA fund. Many are also alumnae of Big 3 schools themselves. In some cases they are third generation Washington elite.

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