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rufflesinc

If you already have graduated with a bachelors and likely with an internship or coop, keeping your high school on it deserves a serious eye roll.
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But I think paying for a really good private school is value for money (at least where I live for the choices between private and public high schools)
Where is the value proposition? What are you getting in exchange for $30-40k? And that is per year, per child.
even a midtier J ticket is lie flat and aisle access. So yeah, it is definitely orders of mag better than even prem econ.
I don't see any advantage to a private school education, considering that the public schools in the upper middle class areas around here routinely send kids to the same colleges.

To be clear, I don't criticize the wealthy for sending their kids to private schools or flying private jet. Its just hypocritical to claim they are not spoiling them, when in fact , an elite prep school just might be the textbook definition of spoiling a child.
That money could just as easily be spent on summer abroad, community college, private tutors, etc, instead of padding the headmasters bottom line

deniah

there's this obsession with cherry-picking anomalies to prove a point - in this case, to champion a virtue about modestly.

as if people dont have different priorities.

the ikea guy owned properties across different countries. but its cooler to talk about his (purported) flying habits. like the old story about warren buffett and some pick-up truck (or whatever), even though all his traveling is done by private jet

rufflesinc

Are you saying warren buffet never travels by road and goes from airport to his final destination by helicopter?

DCAFly

You must live in DC.

strickerj

pinniped

I've literally never seen a resume that listed a high school on it, and I've interviewed/hired a lot of people over the years who were pretty recent graduates. The high school was never on our campus's standard resume format (we had a pretty regimented system) either.

If somebody put a snobby high school on a resume with a crappy college, I would just laugh. If the candidate is coming from a top university, then they would hopefully have the sense to drop the high school.

The key factors, merits, and value of the private vs. public decision for high school in the U.S. is so hyperlocal that it's hard to make a single sweeping statement for or against it on a broader scale. I live in a district with a highly-rated public high school. I live walking distance from one that is unaccredited (or maybe provisionally accredited). But that's all baked into the tax rates and home prices. If you live on one side of the line, you know this and budget for private school tuition as you're considering (lower priced) houses. Other side, you're paying more in the house and taxes for the good schools, so piling on private tuition after that is a tougher call.

rufflesinc

The wealthy are not going to be living on the former side, that is the point

DCAFly

I see it occasionally. Usually kids from the DC area that have gone away to college and now have come back looking for their first job. Seeing Georgtown Day or Sidwell is not going to convince me to hire someone (note: I'm sure they are great schools).

FTA

Yes but also back pain

chrisl137

I see it sometimes on summer intern resumes - they don't usually put it on in the education section, but some do, especially if they're just finishing their first year of college. Especially for the first years they'll list things like AP courses and scores, but also volunteer work they did (tutor at X high school) and clubs or sports teams. It's usually gone by second or third year.

rufflesinc

It's kind of sad actually, if someone went to an expensive and exclusive prep school and they didn't get into a good enough college so they still have to put the prep school on the resume.

If you're finishing your first year at Stanford or Harvard, I don't think you'd have to put that you went to Andover or Sidwell on your resume.

chrisl137

I don't think I've gotten any from fancy prep schools (not that I'd notice...) - mostly public schools. Mostly what they want me to see is that they've got more math and science background than a standard first year. A lot of people prefer not to hire summer interns who've only had one year of college, even from top schools, so they're trying to look like they're effectively between sophomore and junior year.

deniah

I'm saying people perpetuate anecdotes (often false ones) to reinforce whatever religion they subscribe to -- in this case how other people ought to spend their money.
You see Mary, the xxx-rich does *this*, but the REAL xxx-rich does *that*. Because anytime you hear this Ingvar/Warren story, it's spoken in that context.

Most of my shoes shoes are handmade-to-order, because I like them that way; and my socks are from fast-fashion stores (ie disposable mall brands), because I don't care.

Neither are really instructive of my general spending habits, nor informative of how someone like me ought to spend.

Back to your question, I'd venture 90% of his road miles are chauffered, so the vehicles are whatever the transport companies provide.