It is not just about what they say. I do think it reflects their priority in life: $$, power, and hunger for status, not very different from the president and republican party. |
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The majority of people who send their kids to private are not weathly.
This is why Catholic schools do so well. My peers are the 1% of this country and we have a huge mix of types of schools from public to boarding. There are bad eggs everywhere |
How do catholic schools do so well? |
There are a lot of Catholics. Sending their kids to a Catholic school is important to them. It reinforces the Faith and it surrounds them with peers who come from families with similar histories and values. Many have done well enough to send them to private schools, even though for some it’s a financial stretch. The schools offer solid educations and they offer things these families are interested in like top flight sports programs for both participants and fans. But at the same time they are generally more budget friendly that secular privates. |
as a result, less snobbish parents, i supppose. |
| If this is a spin off of the tuition thread, I think there are a lot of posters there who found that discussion from Recent Topics and have nothing good to say about private schools. So you can imagine that parents who are in this forum because they have already chosen private school are going to be knives out in response to these kinds of posts. I wouldn’t take a thread that has gotten so detailed very seriously. |
The tuition thread was totally reasonable though. $60k is a crazy number. |
I understand where you are coming from. And it’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself. |
I grew up near Chappaqua and my high school best friend went to public school there. All I remember him talking about was how everyone had heated driveways and I thought that was so cool. Now in adulthood you couldn’t pay me to live there. |
PP here. Me either. When we moved to the DC area, we were driving through Potomac and it reminded me so much of Chappaqua that I told my husband there was no way I could live there. And yet these Potomac/Bethesda public school parents think they’re so much more righteous and less stuck-up than private school parents. It’s hilarious. |
Totally brilliant use of Ferris. You win the internet today. |
+1. Go to the public school threads and you'll see the exact same thing. |
+1 Private school families are not as special as they think they are. |
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Snow days off work/school = bored and maladjusted people looking for something to make them feel alive.
...and i notice upticks in malevolence when there is no school. It feels like there are some 13 year olds with bad attitudes and an internet connection sock puppeting some of these threads. |
This entire thread is about how private school families are apparently awful. I point out that public school families can be awful too. Your response is, “ha! You’re not as special as you think.” I’m not sure you’re following this conversation. |