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I'll bite.

I've had experience at both public & private.  Public school kids in the area I grew up in ("top" public school district) cared about what they were doing that weekend and what grades they were getting.  The most far into the distance they could think about was college and where they wanted to go to school.  They often didn't think about moving away from their hometown.  The local public high school often held up teachers who had ALWAYS taught in that district (yay for 35 years!), barely left the state and married their high school sweethearts.

Private school kids could tell you about positions in Corporate America.  They would have discussions about investment banking, corporate finance, healthcare and tech companies, the medical and legal field, etc.  They had their colleges on their list and could site several reasons on why those were their choices, often talking about majors and programs that the University was known for.  They spoke of one day living in NYC, downtown DC, London, Beijing, etc in their 20s to pursue a career.  Their sisters, brothers, cousins and family friends had done so and knew their stories.

I can always tell the provincial public school kids from the private school kids.

We chose private for our kids.[/quote]

Make sure their private school teaches them the difference between “site” and “cite.”[/quote]

Good catch! They do! But with fancy spellchecking and grammar checking apps these days, they'll be fine either way! :)[/quote]

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