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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how you can know about the educational background of every parent in your son's grade. The school directory certainly does not list degrees, and not everyone is able to be Googled. I happen to know of parents at STA who have blue-collar jobs such as a cab-driver. I also know of some mothers who have no college degree.

Cab driver, I've not met him/her, yet. Maybe a couple of sahms didn't finish college or only has a high school diploma. Perhaps 1/2 lower-income students have a parent(s) that isn't a "professional." PP was trying to paint STA's parent body as more academically or professionally diverse than it actually is.

Agree with you. If you take the scholarship and recruited athletes out of the equation, you are talking about a very well educated (sometimes I think over-educated) group. Not to say I wouldn't mind running into a cab driver at those events. I'm sure they have better stories and are more fun than the lot I usually run into.

How can one be "over-educated"?

Anonymous wrote:I don't see how you can know about the educational background of every parent in your son's grade. The school directory certainly does not list degrees, and not everyone is able to be Googled. I happen to know of parents at STA who have blue-collar jobs such as a cab-driver. I also know of some mothers who have no college degree.

I don't know the educational background of every parent, but I'm pretty sure I know MOST. I have been to the parent dinners, class get-togethers, etc and over the years I've chatted with parents about what they do. I admit there will be a stray blue collar job, but it's ridiculous to sell this as an educationally diverse parent body.

Jury duty. That's educationally diverse.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't see how you can know about the educational background of every parent in your son's grade. The school directory certainly does not list degrees, and not everyone is able to be Googled. I happen to know of parents at STA who have blue-collar jobs such as a cab-driver. I also know of some mothers who have no college degree.

Cab driver, I've not met him/her, yet. Maybe a couple of sahms didn't finish college or only has a high school diploma. Perhaps 1/2 lower-income students have a parent(s) that isn't a "professional." PP was trying to paint STA's parent body as more academically or professionally diverse than it actually is.

Agree with you. If you take the scholarship and recruited athletes out of the equation, you are talking about a very well educated (sometimes I think over-educated) group. Not to say I wouldn't mind running into a cab driver at those events. I'm sure they have better stories and are more fun than the lot I usually run into.

Anonymous wrote:I don't see how you can know about the educational background of every parent in your son's grade. The school directory certainly does not list degrees, and not everyone is able to be Googled. I happen to know of parents at STA who have blue-collar jobs such as a cab-driver. I also know of some mothers who have no college degree.

Cab driver, I've not met him/her, yet. Maybe a couple of sahms didn't finish college or only has a high school diploma. Perhaps 1/2 lower-income students have a parent(s) that isn't a "professional." PP was trying to paint STA's parent body as more academically or professionally diverse than it actually is.

I don't see how you can know about the educational background of every parent in your son's grade. The school directory certainly does not list degrees, and not everyone is able to be Googled. I happen to know of parents at STA who have blue-collar jobs such as a cab-driver. I also know of some mothers who have no college degree.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure what that means. I have met parents who were public and private HS grads; parents with graduate degrees and parents who stopped after high school; etc. Also a range of parent professions, of all colors of the collar. Plenty of folks born to affluence but not all by any means. Pretty nice group, too.

This is interesting. I've never met one STA parent who only has a high school degree nor have I met anyone who has a "blue collar" job. I have a very diverse group of STA-parent friends.

Me neither. I'm going through my son's grade now. Seriously, everyone either has a college degree or a graduate degree. Yes, parents have gone to public school (myself included), but if there are parents with only high school degrees, they are very rare.

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure what that means. I have met parents who were public and private HS grads; parents with graduate degrees and parents who stopped after high school; etc. Also a range of parent professions, of all colors of the collar. Plenty of folks born to affluence but not all by any means. Pretty nice group, too.

This is interesting. I've never met one STA parent who only has a high school degree nor have I met anyone who has a "blue collar" job. I have a very diverse group of STA-parent friends.

I am not sure what that means. I have met parents who were public and private HS grads; parents with graduate degrees and parents who stopped after high school; etc. Also a range of parent professions, of all colors of the collar. Plenty of folks born to affluence but not all by any means. Pretty nice group, too.

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Anonymous wrote:And, the diverse education level of STA parents.

Not sure what this sentence fragment means.

not sure either, but it's fair to say there is very little educational diversity among STA parents.

So untrue!

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Anonymous wrote:And, the diverse education level of STA parents.

Not sure what this sentence fragment means.

not sure either, but it's fair to say there is very little educational diversity among STA parents.

Anonymous wrote:And, the diverse education level of STA parents.

Not sure what this sentence fragment means.

And, the diverse education level of STA parents.

Anonymous wrote:You have no idea that that poster even has a child at St. Albans. No one I know would ever refer to the school as choosy (which I associate with Jif peanut butter).

Love the JIF reference!

Anonymous wrote:You have no idea that that poster even has a child at St. Albans. No one I know would ever refer to the school as choosy (which I associate with Jif peanut butter).

I interpreted "choosy," as the poster used it, to mean selective in admissions.

You have no idea that that poster even has a child at St. Albans. No one I know would ever refer to the school as choosy (which I associate with Jif peanut butter).