What is the most prevalent private school bumper sticker in DC Metro Area?

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I see a lot of Wood Acres Elementary stickers on cars.

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OBX

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Anonymous wrote:I live close to Alexandria and I noticed a car with EHS as part of their license plate. For the longest time, I thought they were referring to Edison High School, which is a public high school on Franconia Road. Learned later they were referring to Episcopal High School ... an almost $40k a year difference!! Imagine how disturbed they would have been if they'd known of my mistake!!! Ha!

I suspect they wouldn't care much what your opinion is. Nothing wrong with Edison anyway - we have friends with kids there. There aren't that many EHS stickers around here since it is 100% boarding and many of the kids aren't local.

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Anonymous wrote:Color me insecure if you want, but I have our private school's sticker on my car, as well as a soccer ball for my son's team. My kid had fun putting them on. We try to reinforce his sense of belonging to a community in any way we can since we have no family or close network of friends here. I couldn't care less about impressing the guy in the car next to me.

When I was in graduate school with a bunch of overeducated students, it wasn't uncommong to see cars with 3 or 4 stickers stacked on top of each other. I never did that or even wear a tshirt with my school name on it, because I thought it was tacky. I was overthinking it. It was a helluva lot of work collecting those degrees. Why not put a sticker on your car for a couple of years?

The socially secure do not need to have the hard work that they put into earning their degrees (which you call "collecting" degrees!) validated by means of bumper stickers.

[Anonymous]

My 2nd grade son insisits we put his school's bumper sticker on our car. I will take it off now and again, hoping he's outgrown the phase, but he always notices within a day or two and then it's back on again. For him I suppose it shows school spirit, for me I would prefer to be more incognito and not announce what school my kids attend on my car!

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Oh please! At least be honest here...after all it is anonymous. You love the fact that your child got into, and is currently attending XYZ school. You put those bumber stickers on as a badge of honor and pride. And guess what? There is nothing wrong with that. I am very proud of the fact that my child attends a wonderful school, and I do have the sticker on my car. When my child goes to college...I will have that bumper sticker on my car too.

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I like to see our school's bumper sticker on other cars (my husband and I both have one) because it is another way of building community. Once a friendly parent left a note on my car at work wondering who from XXX school worked there, too. Another time someone stopped me for directions at a gas station and said he wasn't from the area, but he had heard of the school and were sure I'd be nice and help him. (I was.) We don't go to a big-name school, but one that the families who go there tend to love.

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Anonymous wrote:I like to see our school's bumper sticker on other cars (my husband and I both have one) because it is another way of building community. Once a friendly parent left a note on my car at work wondering who from XXX school worked there, too. Another time someone stopped me for directions at a gas station and said he wasn't from the area, but he had heard of the school and were sure I'd be nice and help him. (I was.) We don't go to a big-name school, but one that the families who go there tend to love.

This is sweet and pretty accurate.

There have been a few times I have been heading home from work tired and grumpy and have seen another X magnet/sticker and look over and see a familiar face and it always makes me smile and makes Washington seems smaller and more intimate than it is. I think, in a city, that is nice. It certainly makes rush hour a bit more pleasant.

Also, I will be driving along with my kids in the car and they will shout out "Hey, there is an "X" car! Wonder who it is?!!?" They get really excited because, I think, it makes them feel good seeing someone they "know" in the city. This is how it builds a sense of community in a positive way.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please! At least be honest here...after all it is anonymous. You love the fact that your child got into, and is currently attending XYZ school. You put those bumber stickers on as a badge of honor and pride. And guess what? There is nothing wrong with that. I am very proud of the fact that my child attends a wonderful school, and I do have the sticker on my car. When my child goes to college...I will have that bumper sticker on my car too.

While I am proud of the schools that my DCs, DH, and I attend or have attended, my family draws the line on putting bumper stickers on our cars. When the school is a top school, bragging just isn't done. Noblesse oblige.

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HeadFirst baseball--see it all over the place. They must be minting money: rent DC fields for pennies, charge NW DC parents thousands.

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in Va it's all the big "G's. They all love to let you know their kid goes to a private in the city. There is even a car with a Gonzaga - Visitation vanity plate, letting us know how many kids they had and where they went.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh please! At least be honest here...after all it is anonymous. You love the fact that your child got into, and is currently attending XYZ school. You put those bumber stickers on as a badge of honor and pride. And guess what? There is nothing wrong with that. I am very proud of the fact that my child attends a wonderful school, and I do have the sticker on my car. When my child goes to college...I will have that bumper sticker on my car too.

While I am proud of the schools that my DCs, DH, and I attend or have attended, my family draws the line on putting bumper stickers on our cars. When the school is a top school, bragging just isn't done. Noblesse oblige.

You can't be all that well educated to use the phrase "noblesse oblige" in this context!

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Anonymous wrote:OBX

Exactly! Same with ACK. What is up with this? I buy the community thing for schools, but there's no reason to announce to strangers where you vacation.

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Anonymous wrote:I see a lot of those crossed-out W's. Is this an anti-WIS campaign?

Chuckle.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell parents don't usually have stickers on their cars, because they prefer to be a little more refined and understated.

So those are fake stickers on the cars on our block?