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Are you validating my point? Less than 1/4th of all children in one of the wealthiest metropolitan areas in the country.

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10% of students nation-wide attend private K-12 schools [1]. This is not "a tiny minority".

https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=55

This is pedantic. 10% is proportionally a very small number. I'm far more invested in the interests and priorities of 90% of people than of 10% of people.

In Seattle about half of school age white kids go to private schools. Half of the largest demographic.

Also, I don't believe that you are more invested in the 90% over the 10% unless the 10% is a group you disfavor -- such as parents who refuse to condemn their children to bad public schools if they can help it.

I condemn the rich who want to isolate their kids instead of working on a public school system accessible to all, yes.

It's oddly transparent to limit your stats to white people.

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