McLean / Langley / TJ kids failure to launch? Did your kids move back in with you after college?

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Anonymous wrote:Umm not sure if you’ve heard but the job market isn’t exactly stellar. This situation is common to thebentire millennial generation.

We're near full employment -- the unemployment rate in DC for college grads is 2.5%. Don't kid yourself. Your kid just doesn't want to work.

Not for recent grads. My kid is 3 years old. So yes she doesn’t work.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have a chance, you still are more likely to send your kid to TJ, Langley or McLean [i][u]than some other public school in the area. They don't guarantee a great life, but they help put most kids on the right path.

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I graduated from Mclean, attended Purdue U. Engineering school. I am working in IT and have my own company. I've hired and referred many former Mclean graduates just because they have the "Mclean" HS on the resume. Some didn't work out but most often do. I am not afraid to say that I am biased towards kids from Mclean HS. That's just the way life is. My kids attend Potomac school and I am sure working people who graduated from Potomac school will look at him favorably than let say someone from Wakefield. Nothing personal.

What level are you hiring? Who puts their HS on a resume??

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Anonymous wrote:ugh plenty....ive had so many babysitters who went to mclean/langley and couldnt find a job after college and now living in their parents home while babysit for a living

And dog walkers too. I love listening to these parents make excuses....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have a chance, you still are more likely to send your kid to TJ, Langley or McLean [i][u]than some other public school in the area. They don't guarantee a great life, but they help put most kids on the right path.

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I graduated from Mclean, attended Purdue U. Engineering school. I am working in IT and have my own company. I've hired and referred many former Mclean graduates just because they have the "Mclean" HS on the resume. Some didn't work out but most often do. I am not afraid to say that I am biased towards kids from Mclean HS. That's just the way life is. My kids attend Potomac school and I am sure working people who graduated from Potomac school will look at him favorably than let say someone from Wakefield. Nothing personal.

What level are you hiring? Who puts their HS on a resume??

Entry level to Senior IT position. Recent college graduates also put on the resume the HS they attended. You realize that you don't need to go to college to be good with IT right?

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I think a lot of people in their 30s and especially 40s probably feel technologically challenged to find gainful employment. A lot has changed in the past 15 years and most jobs require a good amount of IT knowledge.

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A lot of Asian kids especially girls move home until they get marry. A friend of mine did that. She saved a lot of money and was able move to a single house immediately. Since there is a high asian population at these schools, that's could be the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of Asian kids especially girls move home until they get marry. A friend of mine did that. She saved a lot of money and was able move to a single house immediately. Since there is a high asian population at these schools, that's could be the case.

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I was one of the Asian kids that moved home after college to save money. I stayed there for seven years. When I moved out of my parents house, I invested wisely and I was able to put 80% down payment on a 300k home, that was 1991, in the Mclean area as well.

Something I guess people graduated from Wakefield just don't understand http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/696258.page

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I get that you're not talking about me because I only lived at home for 2 months after graduating but I got a job in DC during spring semester of my senior year of college, and the job started a few days after graduation. I didn't want to have to rush and leave college to find an apt. so I lived with my parents in NOVA for two months. And guess what - it was nice being with them and having them make me dinner after work . They were happy to have me back for a bit of time, haha.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you have a chance, you still are more likely to send your kid to TJ, Langley or McLean [i][u]than some other public school in the area. They don't guarantee a great life, but they help put most kids on the right path.

+1

I graduated from Mclean, attended Purdue U. Engineering school. I am working in IT and have my own company. I've hired and referred many former Mclean graduates just because they have the "Mclean" HS on the resume. Some didn't work out but most often do. I am not afraid to say that I am biased towards kids from Mclean HS. That's just the way life is. My kids attend Potomac school and I am sure working people who graduated from Potomac school will look at him favorably than let say someone from Wakefield. Nothing personal.

No serious job candidate puts their nonnmagnet public HS on their resume.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of Asian kids especially girls move home until they get marry. A friend of mine did that. She saved a lot of money and was able move to a single house immediately. Since there is a high asian population at these schools, that's could be the case.

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I was one of the Asian kids that moved home after college to save money. I stayed there for seven years. When I moved out of my parents house, I invested wisely and I was able to put 80% down payment on a 300k home, that was 1991, in the Mclean area as well.

Something I guess people graduated from Wakefield just don't understand http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/696258.page

Your dig at kids from less affluent families shows you are insecure and pathetic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is kind of interesting how smart these kids were supposed to be and now they are lucky if they can snag a GS11 job.

Many of these supposedly brilliant kids in our "prestigious" neighborhood are still playing video games all day and night in the McMansions....

My daughter went to mclean HS and graduated from VA Tech with an Engineering degree. She is working for a government contractor firm at 90k/year IT job, much higher than GS-11. Yes, she is still living in my mclean home basement because she wants to save money in the next three years for a house down payment. She gets free rent, food and transportation from mom and dad.

Amen. My Langley kid is still in college, but when he graduates, he's more than welcome to live at home while he works and saves money before moving out into his own place or with roommates. I did that for a year after college, and it made all the difference. I actually had a small cushion in my bank account rather than living from paycheck to paycheck in those early years.

There is nothing at all wrong with welcoming your college graduates back home. In most cases, it makes a lot of financial sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Haha on our expensive street 1/2 the families just moved in with Grandma and Grandpa for the good schools or inherited the house. Trickle down economics in action.

And why not? If all parties are amenable, this seems like a great idea to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Excuse me?
That doesn’t happen in those school pryamids.
Check the Wakefield thread.

Ahahah, I was zoned to go to Langley (I went to Cooper) but went to private instead bc of the disgusting wealth at Langley (isn’t that ironic....)
It has been seriously impressive in the last 10+ years to see how many kids of CEOs have become drug addicts, OD’d, or have really no job/life. Certainly not everyone but way more than you would expect!

Yes, ironic indeed. I just love it when people who complain about the wealth at Langley say they or their kids went to private schools. Nope, no wealthy kids there!

And how many kids from your private (with all of its "disgusting wealth) have become drug addicts, OD'd or really have no job/life. I'm sure you won't answer honestly, so we'll just draw our conclusions from the tone of your post.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't the kid that climbed the Trump Tower in NY go to Langley?

Yes. But he had/has mental health issues which had nothing to do with what school he attended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ahahah, I was zoned to go to Langley (I went to Cooper) but went to private instead bc of the disgusting wealth at Langley (isn’t that ironic....)
It has been seriously impressive in the last 10+ years to see how many kids of CEOs have become drug addicts, OD’d, or have really no job/life. Certainly not everyone but way more than you would expect!

Am I supposed to take your comments seriously? You know that there are private schools in mclean as well, Madeira and Potomac to name a few. A lot more CEOs kids go there as well and they have much more disgusting wealth there than @Langley. Based on your assessments, there must be a lot more drug addicts, OD'd and no job/life at those schools.

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