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Why Pay House Premium "for Schools" Instead of Private Schooling?
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2011 Jul 31, 3:24pm 34,320 views 147 comments
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Its a strip mall/cookie cutter mentality that I believe will always be there in society, but I am doubtful will yield the next great thinker or problem solver.
I thought my take on this was over but I had to comment here. You hit this directly on the head. It is a strip mall mentality, middle class bluecollar mentality of what upper class is supposed to be. The people worry so much about such things to such an extreme level are in my view social climbers. This is not as these climbers would like to believe about society because real high society doesn't think the way some people here are. This is about social climbing and nothing more.
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I am not a parent yet, but this has always sort of irked me. People get frenzied over which school district they are buying into and certainly, will seem to overpay for a house to get their kids into some school. Why is it that so many people take no issue with dropping an additional $100,000+ on a house to get at a school, but balk at the notion of private schooling? For $100,000 you could send your kid to a number of private K-8 schools and a college prep place like Bellarmine at $15k per year. It does not seem to compute. Thoughts?