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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I think even in this century, the old adage about "it's not what you know, it's who you know" trumps all. STA will provide those connections. TJ will not. [/quote]

You are quite right in acknowledging the trump card of privilege, power and who you know in making the world go round.  Indeed, affirmative action for  landed gentry and wealthy based on these connections  was the rule for a century and a half at elite private schools -- like your beloved STA.  As you rightly point out, who you knew trumped what you knew.  You also rightly point out this is still the rule at STA.  By contrast, what you know trumps who you know at TJ and other free and public magnet programs.

As what you know takes on increasing importance for many of us the preferential treatment from privilege, connections and who you know will slowly fade.  You are infected with encephalitis of entitlement.  This is a disease that afflicts the minds of many of your kind intoxicated with worship of who you know and not what you know.

For these reasons we strategically opted to take infectious precautions with our children at the young and formative stages of social and intellectual development to avoid entitlement encephalitis.  We have put them in the big pond -- prime time -- where they engage with children from all walks and stations in life.  They will learn to compete on life's bigger stage, based on what they know and not who they know.

The behaviour and attitudes of parents (and many of their children) like you simply reaffirms our wise decision to turn down the Big 3 for the primary school education of our boys and put our checkbook back in the purse.  It's a no brainer.  [/quote]

Well said!  Personally, I think a few (not all) of the St. Albans posters on this thread are upset, because they feel they were gypped.  It kills them to think that they're spending $400K on St. Albans, when others are getting similar--and sometimes better--results at a free magnet like TJ.  Ouch![/quote]

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