Salaams,
I post this here because I know that, culturally speaking, many muslims in this country are intensely focused on educational acheivement. The wealthy among us may be trying to up their children’s chances of entering the best schools by attending private academies.

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(Begin quote) ...it seems private schools are feeling the heat more than their public counterparts. “The Ivies are reaching out for a diverse economic background—even home-schooled students are becoming more of a thing,” says one guidance counselor at a private school in Manhattan. “They are interested in first-generation college kids, and few privates have that. The Ivies are still good to legacies [children of alumni] if their alums have been good to them. But it’s getting harder for private school students because it’s getting fairer for the rest of the world.” (End quote)

Personally, I think this is great. Anything that we can do to avoid having an aristocratic class is good. I find aristocrats (who as a class, seem to be far more starkly visible in other countries than in the US) sense of entitlement and privilege leaves them lazy, arrogant and low achieving. The value an entitled class adds to a society is not proportionate with its productivity, usually.