The alumni benefits of private school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you kid is social and a good networker - -yes, there is potential. But if you kid is not - then no - not much. Come on...

This! Plus, your kid needs the foresight to befriend that nerdy kid that nobody else wanted to be friends with, the Bill Gateses before they make it really big. Or at least be a good judge of which aspiring filmmakers, among his classmates, is actually likely to be successful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I'm wondering if your kid is in school with my old classmates from my big three. There are women my year and around there who graduated with me who were mostly in the "popular" crowd (dancing school, country clubs, spring valley etc) and now send their kids to Beauvoir. judging by fb they seem to spend tons of time hanging out with each other and their kids. It looks like Mean Girls, The Next Generation.

Most of us have grown up and moved on with our lives.

Been through this as well. I am not sure I want to spend $300,000 plus for private school so my kids can be subjected to this.

I feel like I would be experiencing eight grade social hell over again if I sent my kid to the same big three I went to, judging by fb photos of people socializing with their kids. But maybe there is new blood there too and I could hang out with them and ignore the aging mean girls I went to high school with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I'm wondering if your kid is in school with my old classmates from my big three. There are women my year and around there who graduated with me who were mostly in the "popular" crowd (dancing school, country clubs, spring valley etc) and now send their kids to Beauvoir. judging by fb they seem to spend tons of time hanging out with each other and their kids. It looks like Mean Girls, The Next Generation.

Most of us have grown up and moved on with our lives.

Been through this as well. I am not sure I want to spend $300,000 plus for private school so my kids can be subjected to this.

I feel like I would be experiencing eight grade social hell over again if I sent my kid to the same big three I went to, judging by fb photos of people socializing with their kids. But maybe there is new blood there too and I could hang out with them and ignore the aging mean girls I went to high school with.

So I take it you really disliked HS and your big 3 school.