<p>I think what Oldmacdonald was referring to is that much has been written on this board about many schools not having enough FP Americans, so they are taking a lot of foreign/asian students. I know in my town, most the affluent people (which is, in fact, most of the households in the town) send their kids to public schools because, I suspect, they themselves went to public schools and it really never crosses their mind to consider private schools and if it did, they think the public schools are good enough. S/he also questioned the value of socioeconomic diversity and whether it actually contributes anything meaningful to the educational expereince – in his/her view it is just “social engineering” by liberals. Based on my expereinces at our kids’ private grade school, I suspect many FP families would share this view.</p>