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Going private: when public school started to "borrow" Teen Boy's brain cells, it was time to do the unthinkable.

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If you made a list of People Least Likely to Send Their Children Private School, I wouldn't be at the very tippy top since and Che would have those spots sewn up. But I would be close. I grew up believing that private school--unless it was Catholic, in which case you had to go or your parents would burn in hell for all eternity--was a highly suspicious Yankee affectation. Private school was for the spawn of robber barons with names like Chauncey and Chatsworth, Whitney and Morgan.

A superior public school system, I believed--and still believe--is the foundation of democracy and the only way to make sure that the person doling out my meds at the Shady Rest Nursing Home will be able to read. But something happened to make me abandon my principles. Something that, had I learned to write from Bridget Jones's Diary, might have read a little like this:

* Hormonal lunacy takes hold at same instant as pregnancy. Insist we must buy house...

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