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- Your family bothered enough to think about sending you there, rather than spending time keeping up with the Joneses for the latest model of garden sprinkler
by alistairSH 5y ago
- Your family bothered enough to think about sending you there, rather than spending time keeping up with the Joneses for the latest model of garden sprinkler
- Your family quietly put down one thousand(!) dollars towards additional education instead of complaining about the schooling endlessly over $15 bottomless mimosas on Saturday
You really think economically disadvantaged families are sitting around sipping mimosas and worrying about garden sprinklers? Wow.
- quadrifoliate 5y ago> You really think economically disadvantaged families are sitting around sipping mimosas and worrying about garden sprinklers? Wow. None of my comments were scoped to economically disadvantaged families – in fact my thesis is explicitly focused on culture, not economic circumstances or the education system. There are plenty of economically advantaged families whose kids are doing poorly at math.
- rayiner 5y agoHis analogy was sound. When we’re talking about these elite schools, we’re talking about competition within the middle to upper middle class. The median income of every racial group in Fairfax County, for example, is $100,000-150,000. The most underrepresented group at TJ is actually white people, who have the highest median income.