I think there is such a thing as socio-economic cultural quarantining to protect your kids from bogans.

Nothing to do with race whatsoever.

It is likely my DD will go to a private school because most of the public secondary schools in this area are full of ferals.

Am I quarantining her from their influence? Absolutely.
we were thinking along these lines - very seriously - but then i got to spending some time with a few of the parents of kids at the school - and they are simply rich bogans instead of poor. horrible, judgmental pieces of work and i seriously don't want DD around that kind of attitude - so i'm at a loss again!!

our local primary school has a very bad reputation. we live in a great area, but feed into the school that services the Bronx - the lowest socio economic group in town. as much as i'd like to say it doesn't enter my thoughts, it does. so we thought about private school. and then got exposure to the "rich bogans" (as coined by another friend with a kidlet the same age) - so we're back in limbo!!

it's not racially motivated (i honestly couldn't tell you the racial breakdown through the schools here) - it's motivated by trying to have DD in the best educational environment possible