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Originally Posted by wincrasher
My opinion is that private school is just an extension of people's racism.
Especially here in the south, people send their kids to private school primarily because they don't want their kids to attend with all the students of color. Of course no one would ever admit that.
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This is exactly why we did not send our daughter to private school. My wife was interested in sending her to a Jewish day school. I was adamantly opposed. As much as our religion is important to us, I wanted DD to be exposed to all types of people, not just those who are like us. You can't learn tolerance and acceptance when everybody around you looks and thinks the same way you do. I wanted her to see kids of different races, religions, nationalities and socio-economic status. The place to do that is public school.