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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sidwell does not give aid out like other schools of its caliber.

None of these schools let in LOW income families. The testing and the application fees filter them out. They let in middle class which compared to most of the students at these elite schools, appear LOW income. It wouldn't work. I mean it could but I sure wouldn't want to be the token low income kid at a school with super rich kids. Painful, brutal. Just imagine the play dates at their house no one would send their kid to? It doesn't work. Schools target middle to upper middle not true low income families. I was that middle class kid at a big 3 and it wasn't pleasant socially. I had friends and was well liked but there was always something different about how I was treated compared to others. This was so obvious when I found a parent checking my overnight bag post sleepover when a shirt went missing. It wasn't stolen. It was just in the laundry. No one else's bag got searched. I always wanted to go to my neighborhood school but didn't want to seem ungrateful for the opportunity so I just smiled and got my education. [/quote]

If true, that is sad. I know the school that Glenn Youngkin attended DID have some low income students (i.e., I know of full scholarships for the entire 12 years in some cases -- low income where the family would sometimes run out of food at the end of the month).

Youngkin's family situation was not so dire as that, AFAIK, but he did work after school - and, to be clear, worked to help pay the household bills, not as an EC or for personal spending money.  His family were lower income and not rich by *any* definition. [/quote]

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