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I find it unlikely that any advantages conferred by these schools have lasting value. Instead, I think that they are a salve for the guilt-ridden parents who d
by sanj 18y ago
I find it unlikely that any advantages conferred by these schools have lasting value.
Instead, I think that they are a salve for the guilt-ridden parents who don't have time to spend on and with their kids because they're off being Masters of the Universe. So they make up for it with money.
I say this as a parent who's cranking away at a startup and have a kid at a day camp. I'd much rather be spending the afternoon boiling a cabbage for his invisible ink experiment.
- ars 18y ago>I find it unlikely that any advantages conferred by these schools have lasting value. There is actually an advantage that lasts: the culture of intelligence. In most public schools stupid athletes are worshiped, but smart students are teased as geeks, and smart blacks are branded as "acting white". That is pretty much the only thing determining if it's a good school or not, and why it's worth it to go to a private schools that lauds intelligence.
- akd 18y agoYes but good public schools have that too.