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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all are really cracking me up (and alternately scaring the crap out of me)!  From what I can tell from the SOL scores, it looks like Kent Gardens is a very high achieving school!   If you don't like the principal, I can understand that, but this school looks great to me.

I'm just wondering what all this striving for the best of the best of the best school/demographics is for?  Seriously, are you expecting your child to save the world from cancer?  I mean really, not sarcastically, is it THAT important that your child be in the best, best, "best" school?  If your child is really THAT special and talented, won't s/he do great things regardless of where s/he goes to school?  Would it be o.k. if your child was just a regular smart child and not king of whatever hedge fund?  I just don't get this mindset.  I went to a top-10 law school after graduating from a state school in the mid-west.... and guess what... a lot of my class mates came from Princeton, Duke, Notre Dame, Harvard, Penn, Stanford, West Point.  We all got to the same point and most of them paid a heck of a lot more than I did to get there.

I just find this No. Va. area has a large (?) contingent of parents who are chasing intellectualism as a competitive sport when, in my opinion, it's not the be all and end all.  Perspective seems to be out of whack in this area. My kids' school isn't even on the 100 list and it doesn't hurt my feelings in the least![/quote]

I love you.[/quote]

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