Anonymous wrote:Query: If you can afford to purchase a luxury car with all the bells and whistles, why shouldn’t you if you so choose, or should you allow society to shame you into purchasing a more modest vehicle? So if an elite private school offers a superior educational experience, and you can afford to send your child to one, why wouldn’t you? Why should society shame the parents who send their kids to such schools or the kids who attend? Perhaps society should a examine how the public schools have failed our kids and misspent all the public funds allocated toward public education.

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Anonymous wrote:If most public schools in the US offered children a good education appropriate to their abilities, then maybe there wouldn't need to be private schools. But that's very far from the case, While affluent suburban districts are able to do this, the situation is very different in urban and rural areas. I would think the residents of the DC area would already know this. The truth is that the educational opportunities available to US schoolkids are very localized and unfairly deprive a great many of them of the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential.

That is what is indefensible.

Agreed, and that is her conclusion.

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Anonymous wrote:If most public schools in the US offered children a good education appropriate to their abilities, then maybe there wouldn't need to be private schools. But that's very far from the case, While affluent suburban districts are able to do this, the situation is very different in urban and rural areas. I would think the residents of the DC area would already know this. The truth is that the educational opportunities available to US schoolkids are very localized and unfairly deprive a great many of them of the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential.

That is what is indefensible.

Agreed, and that is her conclusion.

Anonymous wrote:Typical emotional class-envy click bait article. As others have said, make public schools better. Silly comes to mind.

Anonymous wrote:When is this magical time when getting into Yale was not easier if you were rich and well connected? Just like Sidwell doesn’t have to let in a representative mix of high school-age people who live in the DMV, Yale doesn’t have to let in a representative mix of college-age people. It’s not a moral failing on the part of either institution. They are businesses and have to take people who can pay for their services, both in tuition and in donations. If they can take some people who can’t because they can collect extra money from those who can, great. But, it’s baffling that we think that private colleges work any differently than private schools. These are not public goods. They do not need to have fair or equitable entry requirements. They must abide by the law, but public school students are not a protected class and the colleges are free to take the students they want to take.

Anonymous wrote:At yet, the author sent her own children to one of the private schools she mocks. She also attended prep school herself and then on to UVa. She has a lot of “for me but not for thee” about her. She’s also been churning out this same mocking private school article about every 2-3 years for a while now.

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Anonymous wrote:When is this magical time when getting into Yale was not easier if you were rich and well connected? Just like Sidwell doesn’t have to let in a representative mix of high school-age people who live in the DMV, Yale doesn’t have to let in a representative mix of college-age people. It’s not a moral failing on the part of either institution. They are businesses and have to take people who can pay for their services, both in tuition and in donations. If they can take some people who can’t because they can collect extra money from those who can, great. But, it’s baffling that we think that private colleges work any differently than private schools. These are not public goods. They do not need to have fair or equitable entry requirements. They must abide by the law, but public school students are not a protected class and the colleges are free to take the students they want to take.

Yale, Harvard, Princeton... could all exist indefinitely on their endowments. The idea that the paying students support the financial aid students is true for a lot of schools, but not these ones

At this point there is no answer to the question “How do you get your kid into Sidwell?” Nobody knows. The best strategy might be to launch an improbable run for United States president and then—if successful—turn in the application and hope for the best.

Anonymous wrote:If most public schools in the US offered children a good education appropriate to their abilities, then maybe there wouldn't need to be private schools. But that's very far from the case, While affluent suburban districts are able to do this, the situation is very different in urban and rural areas. I would think the residents of the DC area would already know this. The truth is that the educational opportunities available to US schoolkids are very localized and unfairly deprive a great many of them of the opportunity to achieve their full academic potential.

That is what is indefensible.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/...hools-are-indefensible/618078/

Don’t let the title turn you off and give this a read!

This article was SO good and thought provoking. None of it was surprised because I figured things were the way they were regarding the chasm between private school and public schools; As well as the wealthy and everyone else.

The world has gotten more competitive. Hence the obsession with getting kids into the right school. Furthermore, I do think it’s unfair that public schools don’t have the same amount of resources as private school. I always knew they had more but I didn’t realize they had *that much more*. It’s no wonder that so many people that make it to the top come from private schools. It feels as if there are no hope for regular public school kids.

Again, really think that every parent should give this a read. Would love to hear everyone’s thoughts!
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This is nonsense. 70% of students at top colleges are from public schools and always have been.

this is what the author wrote "Less than 2 percent of the nation’s students attend so-called independent schools. But 24 percent of Yale’s class of 2024 attended an independent school. At Princeton, that figure is 25 percent. At Brown and Dartmouth, it is higher still: 29 percent." are they incorrect?

I have no reason to believe they are incorrect. But the question is, what do they tell you?

that life isn't fair? The whole Horatio Alger narrative of doing well in high school and then getting into an elite university and going on to fame and fortune is a fantasy. The reality is that the hedge fund manager's kid goes to the elite private with the other rich kids. Those kids, by and large, go to elite universities and then begin adult life with immense advantages. For some reason people still insist that there is a meritocracy, but they are demonstrably wrong- this is just another data point

It’s like the blatant truth is flying above so many people’s head. This is why so many everyday poor, working class. middle class, and upper middle classAmericans are frustrated!