I assure you sending my kid to private school in a diverse city has nothing to do with "insulating her from bad influences" (diversity is good, not bad) and eve

I assure you sending my kid to private school in a diverse city has nothing to do with "insulating her from bad influences" (diversity is good, not bad) and everything to do with ensuring she has motivated and happy teachers who will pay attention to her needs... not a super high bar but America loves underpaying its teachers and starving public education. There's a few magnet public schools that offer this, but getting admission is difficult. All public schools should be magnet schools... "Keeping up with the joneses" doesn't come into play at all.