What were you doing the moment you found out your child was accepted to an elite private school?

[Anonymous]

I've been waiting all season for this. It's like the Frosty of DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Playing squat tag in the asparagus patch with our maid.

[Anonymous]

I can’t remember

[Anonymous]

Funny how at the time when the thread started, people would first find out that they were accepted via mail.

[Anonymous]

Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

Private school parents still support the publica schools and community.

-- parent with kids at both

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been waiting all season for this. It's like the Frosty of DCUM.

+1 love it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

Just shut up. You get a ton of tax dollars with no kids attached. Use it well and appreciate freedom. As in CHOICE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

Tool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

Just shut up. You get a ton of tax dollars with no kids attached. Use it well and appreciate freedom. As in CHOICE.

Tax dollars are based on # of students enrolled.

[Anonymous]

Chasing the pool boy around naked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

Private school parents still support the publica schools and community.

-- parent with kids at both

This. Our taxes still go to the public school system. So sending a kid to private puts money into the public and they don't have to educate our kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing- as we didn't go that route and don't value it at all.
Supporting our public school, supporting teachers, programs, community- priceless.

Just shut up. You get a ton of tax dollars with no kids attached. Use it well and appreciate freedom. As in CHOICE.

Tax dollars are based on # of students enrolled.

But I pay taxes and don't send the kid to public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was waiting by the front door of my significantly overleveraged house, which has 5 bedrooms in the 20016 zipcode but which has no furniture except in the front room in case someone visits. For the entire month of March, I had taken to wearing Depends Undergarments, so I could stand by the mailbox uninterrupted for the 12 hour window during which mail could conceivably be delivered. Each morning at 7 I donned a suitably WASPy Lilly Pulitzer dress so that if someone from Beauvoir had surveillance cameras on me, I looked appropriately attired for the big moment.

I walked out to the box and looked to see if any of my 20016 neighbors were watching me, and opened it. Inside I saw a fatish white envelope. My heart started to pound frantically, and I remember thinking, "I'm going to freaking ram this up the ass of the March of Dimes if this is some solicitation from them..."

Another of my favorites!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sitting at a tax law conference listening to the former Commissioner of the IRS speak. As soon as I got the email, I walked up to the stage, interrupted him, and announced the good news to the entire audience. Needless to say they were all just thrilled and we stopped the conference and started celebrating that instant.

This is really good, too!