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Originally Posted by BENZ-LGB
Socially, I am not so sure. The school they attended has a kind of rarefied air to it and the kids can get a warped view of what the real world is like. 
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When I was thinking about my daughter's education, I had concluded that money spent on a good K-12 education was probably more important than money spent on a college education. However, I was acutely aware of the problem you describe and was very concerned about the long term consequences of those attitudes. Luckily, I did not have to face any hard decisions about it. There was a highly rated public elementary school close by and my daughter got accepted in the Denver School of the Arts starting in middle school. It's a public school with competitive entry requirements. She's in her second year. I've come to the conclusion that the best feature of the school is that all the students who attend got there as a result of a deliberate decision to apply. Nobody is there by accident. I wonder if the high quality of many private schools can be explained in the same way.