School stickers on cars.... views?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
For awhile I couldn't figure out what AHC (Academy of the Holy Cross in Kensington) meant. I googled the initials while stopped behind a nice SUV and my iPhone popped up American Horse Council. For a few weeks I though AHC meant the driver loves horses.

Heh. Until reading this I still assumed that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS lower school REQUIRES parents to put the sticker on for carpool control. Sorry. Not everyone who has a car sticker is trying to brag.

Huh? Did the school have a problem with people who didn't have kids at the school just hanging out in the carpool line? Why in the world would you need a sticker?

[Anonymous]

I saw a Sidwell Friends decal on an armoured black Chevy Suburban with flags flying and surrounded about 12 or more security cars. The parent must have been displaying the sticker to show his importance.

[Anonymous]

Where can I buy the sticker that says my DS got accepted to his 1st choice Ivy after graduating from a fabulous public school? Also, would it be tacky to get another sticker that announced that I saved close to $500k by sending him to public? Might make private-school folks with not-so-smart kids feel like chumps, especially when they have to put the sub-par college sticker on the car alongside the expensive high school sticker. Oh, the sticker woes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where can I buy the sticker that says my DS got accepted to his 1st choice Ivy after graduating from a fabulous public school? Also, would it be tacky to get another sticker that announced that I saved close to $500k by sending him to public? Might make private-school folks with not-so-smart kids feel like chumps, especially when they have to put the sub-par college sticker on the car alongside the expensive high school sticker. Oh, the sticker woes.

And you're on the private school forum because...?

[Anonymous]

Amazing how pervasive envy is. Did anyone consider that the stickers make it easy to identify parents/students that you might know? If you don’t have an affiliation with the particular school, why would you care about what someone else thinks of your car?

I’m sorry to break this to all the anonymous message board posters out there, but the school that your kid goes to does nothing to change who you are as a person. Choose a school based on what is in your child’s interest without regard to what networking or social climbing opportunities the school might provide to you. If it makes you feel better about yourself to huddle among those at your school and disparage those whose children go to other schools so be it, but it won’t make up for what inadequacies led to such bizarre behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where can I buy the sticker that says my DS got accepted to his 1st choice Ivy after graduating from a fabulous public school? Also, would it be tacky to get another sticker that announced that I saved close to $500k by sending him to public? Might make private-school folks with not-so-smart kids feel like chumps, especially when they have to put the sub-par college sticker on the car alongside the expensive high school sticker. Oh, the sticker woes.

You might want to hold off on that sticker until you see how your child fares in the big leagues and after. If you think private school is only about getting a child into an Ivy League school, you are mistaken. But, congratulations on skimping on your children -- I hope that $500K you saved is beign put to good use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a Sidwell Friends decal on an armoured black Chevy Suburban with flags flying and surrounded about 12 or more security cars. The parent must have been displaying the sticker to show his importance.

LOL! That's a riot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where can I buy the sticker that says my DS got accepted to his 1st choice Ivy after graduating from a fabulous public school? Also, would it be tacky to get another sticker that announced that I saved close to $500k by sending him to public? Might make private-school folks with not-so-smart kids feel like chumps, especially when they have to put the sub-par college sticker on the car alongside the expensive high school sticker. Oh, the sticker woes.

You might want to hold off on that sticker until you see how your child fares in the big leagues and after. If you think private school is only about getting a child into an Ivy League school, you are mistaken. But, congratulations on skimping on your children -- I hope that $500K you saved is beign put to good use.

OH NO SHE DI-N'T!

[Anonymous]

I have to admit a lot of times when I see stickers on a car in Vienna with the L sticker I know it's social climbing to the max. Good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to admit a lot of times when I see stickers on a car in Vienna with the L sticker I know it's social climbing to the max. Good for them.

The DCMD sense of superiority is amazingly resilient in the face of evidence that NoVA is simply blowing them away.

[Anonymous]

I had stickers on for the two private schools our kids attend. Then, I decided perhaps it's not such a good idea given that I'm often weaving in and out of traffic to get home in time to meet the nanny -- in other words, I'd rather be anonymous behind the wheel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to admit a lot of times when I see stickers on a car in Vienna with the L sticker I know it's social climbing to the max. Good for them.

Why is it pretentious to send your kid who lives in Vienna to Landon? What other all-boy options do we have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw a Sidwell Friends decal on an armoured black Chevy Suburban with flags flying and surrounded about 12 or more security cars. The parent must have been displaying the sticker to show his importance.

Or he/she could have just been showing affection or association with the school. Just because some people are all wrapped up in status (usually those in this discussion doing the criticizing) doesn't mean everybody is. It is possible that a sticker is just the user saying, "My child attends this school, and I associate myself with its mission."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where can I buy the sticker that says my DS got accepted to his 1st choice Ivy after graduating from a fabulous public school? Also, would it be tacky to get another sticker that announced that I saved close to $500k by sending him to public? Might make private-school folks with not-so-smart kids feel like chumps, especially when they have to put the sub-par college sticker on the car alongside the expensive high school sticker. Oh, the sticker woes.

You might want to hold off on that sticker until you see how your child fares in the big leagues and after. If you think private school is only about getting a child into an Ivy League school, you are mistaken. But, congratulations on skimping on your children -- I hope that $500K you saved is beign put to good use.

No skimping, chose public b/c we're die hard liberals who actually BELIEVE in the public school system. We're also smart people who believe in our smart, well-rounded children. We believed that they were fully capable of competing in the intellectual world without the artificial advantage of a private school. BTW, we believe in education so much that we chose as a family to donate approx. $500k to a scholarship to underprivileged kids to help pay for college. We are very happy with our choices. Obviously, tongue in cheek about wanting a tacky sticker for the car. Our anonymous donation of funds to support education is how we chose to "speak."