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<p>Some parents send their kids to private schools because they believe they will magically confer superior academic achievement/ability onto their child(ren) even if the he/she/they happen to be average at best intellectually, disinterested, and/or lazy. One only needs to look at a recent president to see the inherent fallacy of that thinking. </p>
<p>Many parents also send their kids to private schools for reasons other than a superior education when their motives and other factors are scrutinized more closely. </p>
<p>How else to explain why private schools formerly known as “segregation academies” with poor or sometimes worse academic performance records than their local public schools are still popular among many parents. It certainly caused some “bewilderment” and scorn among several southern classmates and friends who recounted this phenomenon. </p>
<p>Motives which are not limited solely to the southern US judging by the countless unguarded remarks I’ve heard from some NYC area parents as reasons why they sent their kids to private schools…even when they lived in areas with comparable/better public school options.</p>