Thoughts on families with expensive houses and cars who send kids to public school?

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Anonymous wrote:The Russian trolls are back. Seriously.

I really really hope that OP and many of the people responding to OP are trolls, because none of them should be around kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Russian trolls are back. Seriously.

I really really hope that OP and many of the people responding to OP are trolls, because none of them should be around kids.

I actually think people in this areas are as mentally and emotionally arrested as it seems.

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Anonymous wrote:As a product of incredibly fancy private schools this board discusses endlessly, I’m sending my kid to Dcps. He needs to know his community, get that support, give that support, and he needs to know how to advocate for himself and handle the real world. I’m so lucky he gets that and a good education.

My kid was born on third and the last thing he needs is to grow up w the kids of the ppl I grew up w

Your kid born on home plate (not third) if you are sending him to DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote: They’re getting what they paid for in real estate/school taxes and probably paying more because their homes are worth more.

The idea that personal wealth is a sin is silly. The communists have tried to convince people of it for over a century (while the leaders lined their pockets) without success.

Envy is a terrible character flaw and time spent on it takes away from time that could be spent on attaining personal success.

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Anonymous wrote:OP grow up.

Clearly, you have no idea what you are talking about.

We have an absurdly high income. Multiple Homes in the high $10 million range Yes, my kids went to public school. Had part-time jobs, worked in college, and omg actually paid for their own graduate school.


I don't get parent like you. Work summers, yes, but not during the school year. And why on earth would you not pay for graduate school. We don't have close to your income and at best $150K a year and we will pay for college and graduate school but probably a state school as that is what we can afford.

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OP I will be the outlier here and say that when kids are in top rated districts but have 30+ in a class with no aide and their parents can *easily* afford to get them out there…I totally think they should.

That doesn’t mean they need to go to Beauvoir with all the status obsession. Far from it. But put your kids in a learning environment in which you yourself would want to spend 7 hours a day. Calm, functional and imbued with respect.

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A perfectly good choice assuming your local public school measures up. It's their business not our's.

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Anonymous wrote:My experience in NOVA is that three types go to private: 1) the people who want prestige. They’re shooting for the very best privates; 2) the people whose kids “need more attention.” They’re oftentimes at mediocre and parochial schools; 3) the people who want their kid on a HS sports team. Their kid can’t get on the local HS team, but the private coach will make room for them. Typically, these are mediocre and parochial schools.

4) The very religious

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My experience in NOVA is that three types go to private: 1) the people who want prestige. They’re shooting for the very best privates; 2) the people whose kids “need more attention.” They’re oftentimes at mediocre and parochial schools; 3) the people who want their kid on a HS sports team. Their kid can’t get on the local HS team, but the private coach will make room for them. Typically, these are mediocre and parochial schools.

4) The very religious

5) people who only want to be around others like themselves (wealthy/UMC, majority white people from similar backgrounds)

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Anonymous wrote:OP I will be the outlier here and say that when kids are in top rated districts but have 30+ in a class with no aide and their parents can *easily* afford to get them out there…I totally think they should.

That doesn’t mean they need to go to Beauvoir with all the status obsession. Far from it. But put your kids in a learning environment in which you yourself would want to spend 7 hours a day. Calm, functional and imbued with respect.

My family is an immigrant family. Almost nothing was more important to my parents than our education and we went to public school. As an adult, with kids of my own who are both smart and neurotypical, we have passed down to them (I hope) that they need to prioritize their education and schooling. With more resources than my parents, we send to public schools. Why? Because they need to learn to thrive in a chaotic environment. I believe that figuring this out is good for them as they live very privileged lives most of the time. They are getting an excellent education but they do have to work a little harder at it. And given that they both can, I am good with it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My experience in NOVA is that three types go to private: 1) the people who want prestige. They’re shooting for the very best privates; 2) the people whose kids “need more attention.” They’re oftentimes at mediocre and parochial schools; 3) the people who want their kid on a HS sports team. Their kid can’t get on the local HS team, but the private coach will make room for them. Typically, these are mediocre and parochial schools.

4) The very religious

5) people who only want to be around others like themselves (wealthy/UMC, majority white people from similar backgrounds)

People who think a kindergarten class with 25 kids and one teacher is not ideal.

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Anonymous wrote:OP I will be the outlier here and say that when kids are in top rated districts but have 30+ in a class with no aide and their parents can *easily* afford to get them out there…I totally think they should.

That doesn’t mean they need to go to Beauvoir with all the status obsession. Far from it. But put your kids in a learning environment in which you yourself would want to spend 7 hours a day. Calm, functional and imbued with respect.

I have the same thoughts. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t send your kids to private if you could afford it. Sure, they can get a quality education in public, but the experience is much better overall in private.

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Anonymous wrote:Shrewd consumers or greedy selfish parents?

I imagine they are simply not native Washingtonians.

Or just house poor trying to look like they are moving on up, buying the new build + big SUV, but selling used Legos on FB marketplace for $1 and asking folks where are the best free activities.

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Anonymous wrote:People who value community.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I will be the outlier here and say that when kids are in top rated districts but have 30+ in a class with no aide and their parents can *easily* afford to get them out there…I totally think they should.

That doesn’t mean they need to go to Beauvoir with all the status obsession. Far from it. But put your kids in a learning environment in which you yourself would want to spend 7 hours a day. Calm, functional and imbued with respect.

I have the same thoughts. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t send your kids to private if you could afford it. Sure, they can get a quality education in public, but the experience is much better overall in private.

The overall experience really depends on the child. We did private for K-3rd are our child needed a warmer, smaller environment. We would have continued but we couldn't afford it as the school stopped and other schools were a lot more. There are so many ways to teach your kids about the real world outside of school and reality is kids self segregate so they will be with rich smart peers like them and never really see the other side.