The private schools provide a real market test for this stuff. If parents hate it, why keep paying $33,000 a year for it? Public schools generally don’t appear to have gone quite so nuts as some of the private ones.
https://twitter.com/conor64/status/1381004328425545730
I guess I’m biased here though by my view that parents’ spending on things like private school impacts their kids’ academic attainment way less than they think it does, so I already thought they were overpaying.
People see high Ivy League admit rates from private high schools and are incorrectly inferring the causation.
The private high schools are disproportionately full of kids who were already high academic achievers and/or whose parents are wealthy and connected, which would still be college admission assets if they attended public high school.
It’s basically a cargo cult.
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