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Why do people on DCUM think Beauvoir is the only school worthy of discussion on these posts?
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Anonymous
And yet.... you put your kid in what most people here would think of as a "top private". Maybe you got there by a different route (a route that is only available to women with husbands who earn a decent amount). But in the end, your goals don't seem much different from those of anybody else here. The only difference is your insulting assertion that your kid is more loved and self-confident and generally innocent than our kids. Which I for one am taking with a huge grain of salt. |
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Here's what I got from OP's message about her kid:
- she's never had to share a toy - she thinks she's the center of the universe, because OP acts like she is. - She's loved, because moms who work instead of "refusing" to stay home (as if everybody had that option) don't love their kids. |
Anonymous
| Yup...it's very insulting for her to think she's so perfect for staying at home and only because "she's college educated". Here's my story...I stayed home only for 8 weeks after having a c-section. I worked really hard and my husband + I were delighted to have our child accepted to a great school and top Ivy university. W/o a paying job...my kid would have had to have gone to a subpar DC public and subpar college. Not everyone's husbands make the big bucks...sometimes it's the wives who do. |
Anonymous
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OMG, I LOVE how dead serious you all are. This is my favorite board on DCUM.
You do realize you are talking about preschools and elementary schools, yeah? |
Anonymous
Actually, we're talking about whether a mom who works outside the house, instead of staying home, "loves" her kid as much as the SAHM who started this sub-discussion. And whether, as she implies, our kids will be insecure and bad at school interviews because of our need and/or choice to work. Pretty serious stuff! |
Anonymous
| And yet, still, no one has asked her what her DC's WIPPSI scores were. |
Anonymous
That's actually NOT what the SAHM says in her post, but some of you are extremely insecure about having made the choice to work outside the house and need to read that into the SAHM's post. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you READ the post that I responded to , or any of the others ? Doesn't the level of obsession about how to "get your kid in" bother you? People asking advice on: should I hire an advisor?Should I take my child out of one pre-school and send them to a different one that is a "known feeder" "it helps to be a visible minority" ".Can a three year old be coached for the test? "Does this not offend anyone's parental instinct? Is there anyone out there....
Meanwhile, back at Private School A they are asking themselves: how can we attract a more economically diverse crowd?[/quote] And yet.... you put your kid in what most people here would think of as a "top private". Maybe you got there by a different route (a route that is only available to women with husbands who earn a decent amount). But in the end, your goals don't seem much different from those of anybody else here. The only difference is your insulting assertion that your kid is more loved and self-confident and generally innocent than our kids. Which I for one am taking with a huge grain of salt. [/quote] I did't say that my daughter is more loved . My point is that she was less "cookie cutter" , less packaged , less pressured. I do believe that is why she was accepted. My point is that all this pushing a child: prepping for a test,hiring a coach, placing them in what is basically a "day care" when you don't need to just to get a teacher rec....is unhealthy and I mean unhealthy for everyone. Attack me all you want, but just ask your Pediatrician what he/she thinks. Many kids have the "good" family backround, the grades, the "top" school education and yet, they have no sense of themselves because every aspect of their lives has been micro managed by an over achieving adult. The schools see it too.It might fan the flames to say "I had no choice" ,"I had to work" but to paY $$$$ to send a child to River School or NCRC because" I had to work" when we ALL know that a 9-3pm school will not cover the work schedule of anyone who really "needs" to work is a bunch of BS. Many of these kids also have full time nannies who pick them up at 3pm and who's hours were cut after their years of loyalty and why?? The all important teacher rec., that's why. And, no, I don't have a rich husband or rich wife |
Anonymous
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See, she is attacking working mothers. I'm a SAHM and I'm offended.
You set up a straw man, PP. As much as you want to think that the rest of us are prepping and coaching, this is actually very rare. I think most of us did NOT do any of those things. Here you are attacking away, certain that your approach (not much different from many of ours) is the only way to go when you are the one who appears over invested in your child. |
Anonymous
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My pediatrician is a working mom--she obviously thinks that having other people care for her children is acceptable, or she wouldn't do it.
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Anonymous
OK, give us your interpretation of her post. One that looks a lot rosier than what the rest of us see. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]See, she is attacking working mothers. I'm a SAHM and I'm offended.
You set up a straw man, PP. As much as you want to think that the rest of us are prepping and coaching, this is actually very rare. I think most of us did NOT do any of those things. Here you are attacking away, certain that your approach (not much different from many of ours) is the only way to go when you are the one who appears over invested in your child. [/quote] Oh, I see, so all these "school placement consultants" and WIPPSI prep publishers are in business for just one sock puppet on the DCUM website....and the abundance of "pre" schools in Washington that charge $22,000 to $28,000 for 9 months of 6hours a day care are in business because they so completely meet the needs of the middle class Mom who in DC makes , on average, 55K to $70/year, OK....sure. |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]See, she is attacking working mothers. I'm a SAHM and I'm offended.
You set up a straw man, PP. As much as you want to think that the rest of us are prepping and coaching, this is actually very rare. I think most of us did NOT do any of those things. Here you are attacking away, certain that your approach (not much different from many of ours) is the only way to go when you are the one who appears over invested in your child. [/quote] Oh, I see, so all these "school placement consultants" and WIPPSI prep publishers are in business for just one sock puppet on the DCUM website....and the abundance of "pre" schools in Washington that charge $22,000 to $28,000 for 9 months of 6hours a day care are in business because they so completely meet the needs of the middle class Mom who in DC makes , on average, 55K to $70/year, OK....sure.[/quote] "All these school placement consultants" - do you mean the handful that are out there? And I have wondered before if any of them really makes a living from it. |
Anonymous
| Ask yourself: did this nonsense even exist when you were 3 years old? |