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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even when money was an issue we chose private schools for our children.  It has been worth every penny.  I firmly believe that our children are better educated than they would have been at our local public schools AND we very much appreciate that our children have been in schools where the families have similar value systems.  Don't mistake value systems for diversity.  The schools have been satisfactorily diverse (important to us because we are a multi-racial family and we wanted our children to feel like they belonged) but it is the similarity in values, social mores and ethics that have been the most important to us.  We would have paid any amount of money for our children to be in the private schools we chose for them.[/quote]

That sounds nice, but that hasn’t been my experience.  There are terrible parents (and thus reflected in their  kids) at every income level.  There are plenty of private school parents/families that look the part of outstanding citizen, but are totally checked out from actually parenting their kids.  They outsource most things and have do none of the grit real parenting takes.  Their very average intelligence kids are spoiled, entitled, and think they are something special.   They do all the same “bad kid” stuff too, just aren’t as obvious about it.  These types of kids to me, are a worse influence than the troubled kids of the low income struggling parents found at public schools.  [/quote]

That's an interesting perspective and, in my opinion, a well-established public school trope about private school parents and their children.  I have not seen what you're describing with any of the parents or children in the schools my children attend.  IMO a big part of that may be the intensive screening process conducted by the schools our children attend.  They don't want what you describe any more than I, as a parent at the schools, want it.  The parent populations of our kids' schools seem very involved in all aspects of their children's lives.  But you do you.  That's what makes this such a great country. We have options.  You exercise your right to send your kids to public school and we will exercise our right to send our kids to private school.  It is all good.   :lol: [/quote]

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