I don't understand parents who are flashy with their wealth but send their kids to public school
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Anonymous
+1 I mean, yes, some people have enough money to pay a premium to live in a neighborhood with good schools, and also send their kid to private. But if you aren't stupid rich, and you've paid to live in the good school district, why wouldn't you take advantage of that? |
Anonymous
| People do what they want. Worry about getting your own house in order. In the time it takes you to focus on the haves, think of what you could have accomplished. This post took 39 secs out of my life. I could have folded more clothes. |
Anonymous
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I think you would like the book, “Stop Acting Rich”, OP. It’s by Millionaire next door author and DCUM fan favorite Thomas Stanley.
I suspect it is the glittering rich who can truly afford private school and not give a wit what the UMC does with all their speculating and judging and entry level purses |
Anonymous
| Private schools are not necessarily better than the public schools. |
Anonymous
Your child comes home and complains that the teacher said the wrong name? Sometimes I call my own child three different names before getting it right. You have never done that? Public school in FCPS - all of my 5th grader’s homework comes home corrected with comments. |
Anonymous
| Lots of wealthy parents send their kids to public schools. Many people prefer for their kids to go to a community school with the other kids in their neighborhood and to play on sports teams with kids who attend their schools. Since wealthy people generally live in wealthy neighborhoods, their public schools generally have a decent sized cohort of other wealthy kids. |
Anonymous
Do you have any evidence that the top 3 privates in DC actually offer a better education than the "second rate" privates and catholics in Va? They may have more prestige, but how do you know that they are actually better? |
Anonymous
| We’ve got plenty of money and our mission is to keep that information from the kids as long as we can. We spend good money on their activities and vacations, but they have no concept of how much that costs. Our house and car and clothes and tastes, etc. are very modest. The upper class culture around here is toxic. Wealthy children are subject to more stress, more alcohol and drugs, and more pressure to be perfect at all things. In my experience they also tend to be more self-centered and unkind. They believe their parents are more interested in them becoming accomplished than in them becoming good people, and they’re probably right. I’m keeping my kids from that culture as long as possible. |
Anonymous
| The parents I know send their kids to public or private based on the children’s individual needs. It’s not unusual to meet a family with a kid in public and another in private. |
Anonymous
Agree |
Anonymous
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What I hate are those who complain they have no money but yet they have these fancy bags (Fake or not, it's more than 5 bags), fancy brand name clothes which I don't really care about and fancy expensive new cars, giant house, fancy vacations.
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Anonymous
| People THAT obsessed with tacky status markers would have their kids in private if they could actually afford it. Because outside of neighborhood, where your kids go to school is a top parental status signal. They’re not nearly as rich as they portray. They’re shallow and pathetic wannabes. |
Anonymous
Oh thank you. I think the OP is a troll. The NA she is describing is not the one I live in. |
Anonymous
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High-status clothes
High-status vacations High-status cars High-status restaurants Public school? Lol. Something isn’t adding up there. The richest neighborhoods have the high % of kids in private. |
Anonymous
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No need to understand them. Their families have different needs than yours.
Maybe they want diverse interactions for their children. Who knows? Worry about your family needs. |