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Which private school - STA, NCS, Sidwell, Holton etc. has the most famous/prominent grads?
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Anonymous
You are correct. Those schools are for the elite. We're all pretending down here in hicksville DC -- none of the choices people are constantly fighting over on these posts come close to any of the schools you mentioned. I'm being serious. I wish I could have gone to one of those schools! |
Anonymous
Wow, I come back to this thread after a few days away and I can't believe people are arguing about the prestige of different schools again. People please! The school that fits your kid is the best school! |
Anonymous
| Okay, everyone in my family (except my sisters and I, who were raised by my black sheep father) went to either Exeter, Andover, or Choate. I'm sure they are better schools, if by better you mean able to raise kids who go on to be abusive, alcoholic slackers who need their dads to get them into a good law firm and protect them for their first 10 years of mistakes. |
Anonymous
| The problem here is genetic (your family) and has nothing to do with the schools. |
Anonymous
Are you the same Exeter-Andover sock puppet from a few weeks ago (http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/70281.page)? Doesn't this get as tedious for you as it does for the rest of us? |
Anonymous
| No, I have never commented about those elite schools on these posts. I just wish my family would have been super rich so that I could have gone there. So take your little sock puppet insult and stuff it in your own pie hole. Thank you very much. |
Anonymous
Great, then please explain why you think those Northeastern boarding schools are so clearly better than all the other schools here in Hicksville. You've got strong opinions, so unlike the Exeter-Andover sock puppet, I'm sure you'll be happy to back them up with some logical reasons rather than just a bunch of parroted "me too!" posts. While you're at it, could you please explain how "super rich" parents would make a difference -- the tuition costs are not much different between Exeter-Andover and most of the DC privates, so that point confused me (although I'm sure most DC people could just barter a mule to cover tuition). I look forward to reading your views. |
Anonymous
| Are you on drugs? What are you snorting? : hicksville's DC privates are better than Exeter/Andover/Groton? |
Anonymous
I'm still waiting on some fact-based reasons, Exeter-Andover. You're starting to smell more sock-like with every passing minute. |
Anonymous
I went to college with a lot of these boarding school types and they all lacked something - really - I think being shipped off at 14 really screws people up and they become emotionally detached. Even as parents they seem detached from their kids in a weird way. It is strange and I wouldn't ever send my kid to one of these schools even though we could easily as we have the money, smart kid, and the connections to get in. We have a lot of great schools here in DC and I know my kids will do just great graduating from one of those regardless of which one it ends up being! |
Anonymous
Well said PP. |
Anonymous
| Meow pps |
Anonymous
Pardon my meow, but it's St. Paul's, not St. Paul. I think this is the same sock puppet from one of the other threads, because that poster kept referring to "St. Paul" as well. I did not attend Phillips Exeter, Andover, "St Paul" or Groton, but as I have posted in the past, I did attend another New England boarding school in the same league. While my school was superb, I think that people who constantly draw comparisons between these boarding schools and the DC privates are foolishly preoccupied with fetishizing boarding-school life, which is no picnic. While I disagree that the majority of boarding school grads are screwed-up alcoholics whose parents protect them from their own mistakes, I think boarding schools are a deeply unhealthy environment for teenagers. I paid a big emotional price for my boarding-school education (try living in a dorm where half of the girls have eating disorders, rich girls ship home their "winter wardrobe" in the spring so they can make room for their "summer wardrobe," and the dorm mother appears to actively dislike girls who don't conform). The schools here in DC are fabulous - rigorous, rich with opportunity, blessed with bright kids and active parents. And best of all, my child can attend one and still live with his family. It's truly the best of both worlds. I feel incredibly grateful to live in a place where I don't have to choose between a great education and a supportive family life for my child. |
Anonymous
I agree it's the same sock-puppet. Same poster seems to have a particular hatred for Big3 schools. I'm picturing an unemployed 23-yo kid who is back with parents after college and has little to do besides troll internet chat boards. I imagine he was not admitted to his DC school of choice, and so went to a boarding school instead (probably Exeter), and now has nothing to do better than claim those schools are better than anything here in "hicksville." Near total speculation on my part, but that's what's in my head. It's unfortunate too, because even though those boarding schools are probably very good, stuff like this makes me view them negatively. |
Anonymous
| Wow, what an imagination! How was that cocktail? |