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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Luckily we don' t need to attend a private school to obtain an international atmosphere either.

Unfortunately, my kids need to go to private school to get get eduacated - since they are learning disabled but not learning disbaled enough in the eyes of public schools (which is a whole other thread). 
Actually many kids in our school are in the same situation.

I do, unfortuanately, have to have conversations with them about being perceived as bratty rich kids simply because of the sweatshirts they wear. [/quote]

As you rightly point out, parents may have to choose private school.  However, it sounds like you are doing so in spite of, rather than because of, the fact that private school is, generally, not representative of society as a whole.[/quote]

I send my kids to their school to learn and to learn that learning can be enjoyable - my kids love their school. That is the most important thing for a school to teach.

Public schools are not representative of society as a whole - they are just representative of their zip code and whatever zip code got zoned into that school.

I think public schools in our area disproportionately represent blacks and hispanics as poor. I don't this this will teach my kids anything positive.

My kids have black and hispanic friends (as well as French/Egyptian/Slovic) but they are upper middle class. They have friends whose parents are 1st generation in the US they just happen to be upper middle class. My kids think all kids are the same regardless of race. That is what I want them to learn at this point in life. My kids don't care what you are or where you are from as long as you can throw a ball or kick a ball or at least stop the other team from doing so.

I don't think it is the job of the school system to teach my kids diversity that is my job.

My kids have cousins that live on a farm and cousins that spend weekends skiing in Colorado. They have friends whose parents are widows, single mothers, single fathers, coparenting and married. They have friends that are girls and boys. They play with teenagers (and learn how to be teased) and play with 3 yr olds (and learn to be responsible).

It is my job to guide them through and discuss interactions to help them become as well rounded as possible.

Do my kids understand what it means to be poor? HELL NO! But public school does not teach that either by just being around poor kids - seeing who gets free lunches.

What I don't really understand is how kids (and they are kids) are judged because they go to these schools. Immediately people think they know who these kids are and it is not a positive image. [/quote]

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