I was one of those misguided parents of the 80s and 90s who believed expensive private schools and Ivy League colleges were the road to academic and professional nirvana for my kids.

Dc suburbia, mostly white at the time, affluent but lamentably uninformed, is a bubble, happily bobbing along on a crest of self-indulgence. Capitalism, you see.

Well, my kids being non-white, were subjected to verbal abuse, bullying both by students and teachers and suffered emotional traumas at multiple levels.

When dandruff flakes are mistaken for Lice eggs and a 6- year old kept in isolation for a full school day without water and food, something has to be terribly terribly wrong. Ignorance, willful cruelty, prejudice, hubris. And we wonder why a Trump is president today.

If I’d been less of a scared naive brown mother, I would’ve sued that school, within a stone’s throw from the Oval Office, in a heartbeat.

My child was pulled out by me and sent to a public school. Not the best option, given the generic level of education, but it was either that or another wretched, private school full of spoilt entitled kids.

Came time for UPenn. I can only say that I repeated the same stupidity. My child was MISERABLE there. Professors didn’t engage. Most of the student body? Entitled, snobby and patronizing. So naturally she gravitated towards kids like herself — her own brown ‘kind.’ And we remained in the dark. No pun.

But you know how brown parents are. It’s either Ivy League or bust!

At any rate all my kids escaped the shambles of a broken dream and chose Europe and the old country. They’re happy. Adios, capitalism!

So yes, Cambridge and Oxford are the ticket! Good luck to you from the bottom of my heart.