<p>Among those of us who can afford private high schools and have the option of sending our kids to one, we choose not to. Often our local public high schools are excellent, offering a greater variety of activities, diversity of students, and variety of classes. We don’t want our kids to be surrounded by students who take wealth as the norm and feel entitled to it. We feel really sorry for kids whose parents believe they are failures if they don’t get into a ‘brand name’ school or end up in a job that has sufficient prestige because that’s the social group they are comparing themselves to. And we have heard all the horror stories about paying through the nose only to find that the teachers aren’t better and the administration’s attitude is that your kid is lucky to be here.</p>
<p>So no, we don’t consider ‘elite’ high schools to be much of a draw.</p>