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Local public schools vary dramatically in quality. A perfectly rational parent could have grown up in a good public school and when looking at the school that i
by lolinder 1y ago
Local public schools vary dramatically in quality. A perfectly rational parent could have grown up in a good public school and when looking at the school that is assigned to their children based on where they moved to decide that private school is right for their kids given the public option they're faced with.
- RajT88 1y agoA valid point. But - at least a couple people I know are choosing not to send their kids to better public schools than they themselves attended.
- inanutshellus 1y agoPrivate school is about "who you grow up knowing" not merely a "better education".
- RajT88 1y agoAhhhh see that makes more sense.
- palmotea 1y ago> Private school is about "who you grow up knowing" not merely a "better education". Maybe at the very elite end, but I don't think that applies generally. No one's going to Catholic School (IIRC, the biggest single type of private school in the US) because of "who you grow up knowing," for instance.
- inanutshellus 1y agoThat's not a counter-argument. If your child spends his entire childhood primarily knowing folks that share your religious views, he's going to be better at honoring those views as an adult. Ergo, as a parent that knows that, religious school promises a curated "who your children know" even if that "who"'s attributes are "my kind of religious" rather than "my kind of wealth". ... but at least in my local area those two things overlap nigh-identically.