On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Ingrid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Except that in choosing both residential neighbourhoods and schools, > parents > > (usually) determine peer group as well. > > Which brings us back to square one -- my worry about the peer group at > most non-traditional schools and Ramjee's contention that it was > irrelevant. > > -- b
I would tend to agree with Kiran/Jace about the influence of the peer group. I was, I think, lucky to have a "solid middle-class" peer group for our daughter throughout her school life (though probably ours was the smallest bank balance of all of the classmates' parents)....we belong to a generation where simplicity was not equated to cheap. But I do know some friends' children who went to more "elitist" schools after their Class Ten, and then to Ivy League colleges, who still have shaped up pretty well; they are strong individuals on whom the others can lean, not vice versa, and their heads are firmly on their shoulders and their feet are firmly on the ground...so then, maybe, the parents' values got inculcated by then.... Oh well, Ramjee and Kiran can battle it out, we can watch. Deepa.
