JKLM pet peeve

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Anonymous wrote:hate to burst your JKLM/M bubble, but minus the pricey real estate, helicopter Moms, and rabid fund raising, it's still just plain ol DCPS curriculum, which isn't much to brag about.

Let me guess; your kid goes to Cooper, sells or buys drugs, is in a class of 50 kids and you think it's a great school because FCPS says so?

Nope. DC resident. Sent my kid to DCPS until I just couldn't take the lousy curriculum any more.

Whatever. Hope you''re enjoying your crushing debt for private school when your dd spends her weekends at bj parties at the homes of rich parents who are away in Europe for "business trips" and the like. We DCPS parents will just be here enjoying life, supplementing our kids education with extra-curriculars that you can no longer afford since you have chosen to spend your life trying to keep up with the 1%ers Jonses.

Catholic School, quite affordable, few of the parents are rich, not one in the 1%. But the curriculum is excellent. And the extracurriculars are included.

please the name of the school - this is not to criticize, I am always looking for good education opportunities for my kids, wherever they might be. thanks

Avalon

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my experience (not Mann) is that even at some DCPS there are rich parents who do business trips to Europe (I have done several myself, although I am not rich unfortunately - since they are business, the trips are paid by the firm). several of my DD class mates (1st grade)have gone to Europe with their entire families for summer vacation (much better indication of richness that a business trip paid by an employer). Lat year, in K, when I did a reading about the Eiffel Tower in Paris I asked raise your hand who has even been on top of it and to my surprised several kids did it.

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Anonymous wrote:my experience (not Mann) is that even at some DCPS there are rich parents who do business trips to Europe (I have done several myself, although I am not rich unfortunately - since they are business, the trips are paid by the firm). several of my DD class mates (1st grade)have gone to Europe with their entire families for summer vacation (much better indication of richness that a business trip paid by an employer). Lat year, in K, when I did a reading about the Eiffel Tower in Paris I asked raise your hand who has even been on top of it and to my surprised several kids did it.

Umm, I believe the reference to parental European "business trips" was not a complimentary one. It was a reference to rich, undersupervised private school kids that party too hard and engage in other acts that your really do not want your children exposed to. Think the high school lifestyle that has led to college lacrosse scandals.