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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The code isn't private school but money. It just appears and is reinforced more often at private schools for obvious reasons. But the same code is found at fancy suburban high schools in places like Greenwich and Bronxville while plenty of private school grads languish in obscurity and mediocrity.

People overthink this and social engineering too much. Going to public school doesn't make you nicer. Going to a more diverse school doesn't make you more tolerant. The vast majority of people will grow into an innately comfortable network of likeminded peers based on personalities and interests and expectations so they will end up in homogenous environments one way or another.

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I disagree. Going to school with classmates who live in subsidized housing, or can’t afford to eat out, or who get free lunch every day, or who don’t have passports, can’t afford summer internships, or who have a parent in jail… these are differences that won’t been seen and accepted as “normal” in private schools.[/quote]

You disagree with what? Not clear.

If you are saying that going to a rarefied environment where you never encounter the less privileged is part of the code, then you're wrong. The code is having money and the confidence stemming from it, not lack of exposure to poverty.

I know people who went to elite private schools. I know people who went to small town public schools and diverse urban schools. There is no inherent superiority to any one of these types of schools. Individual personalities go far more than the school setting in determining your outlook on life. Some of the most incredibly sympathetic and charitable people I know are private school graduates while some of the most self absorbed and selfish people with no sympathy for other people's plights are public school graduates. [/quote]

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