Parent body at Beauvoir and GDS?

[Anonymous]

Of course, and we all know this, but the point of the troll is to promote stereotypes. As a former Beauvoir parent who's child had 5 wonderful years there, I find that kind of public degrading of a school in a public forum abusive. I can't imagine what would motivate such vitriol, unless the person is just disturbed. I think the PP's insistence, even anger is more revealing of their own personal hang ups than it is revealing of anything about Beauvoir. What was the wording " it makes me go ballistic" Really ? Ballistic ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir is "my name is Preston Worthington III. I myself went to a preparatory school as a child and my son little Preston IV will be doing the same. Wouldn't want him to be interacting with the riff raff at some dirty public school." GDS is "I smoke a lot of pot and live in Bethesda because you can get quite the house for a bargain there. We love our Volvo station wagon and we're very liberal."

NP here also making the same decision, hmmm these last few posts although hilarious, do make it seem that indeed Beauvoir and GDS are different socioeconomically.....

The posts are funny, yes, but they remind me of the time I (a Sidwell parent) went to watch a game at Landon. I parked our brand-new Prius next to a Cadillac Escalade -- white with gold-colored trim and a Landon sticker -- and smugly thought to myself, "Hah, that's something you'd never see at Sidwell." Wouldn't you know that the very next morning at carpool, there right in front of me was a white Cadillac Escalade with gold trim and a Sidwell sticker.

If someone drew a Venn diagram of the cultural/class signifiers among parents at various private schools, my guess is there would be substantial overlap. That means that unless you're an outlier -- the whitest of white-bread Beauvoir families or the crunchiest of GDS families -- you'll find your tribe regardless of which school your children attend. And, don't forget that as your children get older, they, not you, will choose their friends -- and the families of those friends may be very different in style from your own. We certainly found that to be the case with our children, particularly in high school. The interesting thing, though, is that as a result we ended up getting to know and like parents who were very different from us. Really -- one of my best "mom friends" drives a silver Mercedes.

That is true.