Where can my kid get a great education without becoming an entitled a##hole?

[Anonymous]

Send him to public school in DC and then, if that is not working out, send him to Edmund Burke starting in 6th grade.

[Anonymous]

I will answer your question OP. St. Anslem's Abbey in NE. Excellent education, no elitism. (Not affiliated with the school, just toured it and got a great impression.)

[Anonymous]

We are doing private k-8 and then public MCPS

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As soon as you need your kid to go to a "great school" or you become a "but the schools" parent, you are in trouble. I went to mediocre schools in working-class neighborhoods and ended up with a Ph.D. from a top 5 program in my field. I send my daughter to a very diverse public school with about 50% low-income kids and middling test scores. I'm really happy with the education she is getting and I think it will give her a lot of choices. If she wants to follow a highly academic path like I did, she will be able to push herself to do that, and if she wants an entirely different path she has such a wide range of role models who are happy and successful people.

[Anonymous]

I have 3 teenagers. I don’t think the school has nearly as much to do with it as the friend group and the parents. Granted the friend group will likely come from school, but every school has a range of kids and which group your child gravitates to is wide open. (Now two of my kids also have a stronger friend group from an outside activity) I know some of the nicest kids at the most elitist schools . . . And vice versa. Truly the only way I see my kids being influenced by their schools is that the ones who have had religious influences have stronger discipline and preach a moral code. But truly, it’s not the school - it’s the family and the families that have raised the friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We want our son to get a great education but don't want him to turn into Brett Kavanaugh.

He's only a year old, so I think we have time, (unless we were supposed to start with some elite playgroup when he was a zygote where Ruth Bader Ginsburg reads him Goodnight Moon or something).

We're focused on private schools in MD or DC because don't want to squeeze into Barbie's dream house in order to live in Potomac.

And yes, I know that parental influence is the main factor in my kid not becoming a total douchebag. But school plays a role, too.

Not surprisingly, Google is no help in this matter.

Just send him to a charter and get over being so judgemental and nasty.

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Anonymous wrote:I like our neighborhood school- Kensington Parkwood. The parents I've met are smart but not snobby. Many work at NIH, nonprofits, government. The kids have been great- haven't met really snobby kids either

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Public school. Not in Bethesda or Potomac.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public school. Not in Bethesda or Potomac.

This.

In MOCO: Walter Johnson, BCC, Quince Orchard, Northwest, Clarksburg, Richard Montgomery, Wootton, Blair, Sherwood, Damascus, Einstein. I'm sure there are others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As soon as you need your kid to go to a "great school" or you become a "but the schools" parent, you are in trouble. I went to mediocre schools in working-class neighborhoods and ended up with a Ph.D. from a top 5 program in my field. I send my daughter to a very diverse public school with about 50% low-income kids and middling test scores. I'm really happy with the education she is getting and I think it will give her a lot of choices. If she wants to follow a highly academic path like I did, she will be able to push herself to do that, and if she wants an entirely different path she has such a wide range of role models who are happy and successful people.

What school does she attend, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We want our son to get a great education but don't want him to turn into Brett Kavanaugh.

He's only a year old, so I think we have time, (unless we were supposed to start with some elite playgroup when he was a zygote where Ruth Bader Ginsburg reads him Goodnight Moon or something).

We're focused on private schools in MD or DC because don't want to squeeze into Barbie's dream house in order to live in Potomac.

And yes, I know that parental influence is the main factor in my kid not becoming a total douchebag. But school plays a role, too.

Not surprisingly, Google is no help in this matter.

You sound like an entitled a##hole, so not sure what your real options are.

Boarding school? Adoption?

[Anonymous]

Public school in western Prince William County.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Home school

I thought about this, but can you get your kid into a good college if you home school?

Of course, people do it all the time. Many people homeschool to improve their kid's chances of getting into a good college.

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Anonymous wrote: Douche bag sons normally have douche bag parents. Or have nannies to play the role of mom and dad.

Secret formula: Dedicate 30 hours per week to being engaged with your kid during daylight hours

I see kids who boss their nannies around. I used to see this in nyc all the time. Boys with help escorting or driving them. They basically have servants waiting on them.

We live in McLean and send our kids to public. We can afford private easily but wanted kids to be down to earth. Granted many kids live in multi million dollar homes.

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Anonymous wrote:Our country doesn't care enough about education to make public schools nearly as good as private schools. We live in a country that cares more about money than education, so you have to throw money at a school one way or another: by living in an elite district or by shelling out for private school.

Does that make you mad? Me too. But it's true.

The main difference between public and private are the students.

If you put a similarly affluent cohort in a public school, they'd likely outperform the private case and point compare TJ to any local private.