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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. I have good friend in the Midwest (average suburb outside a midsized city, so not small town). Her kids’ high school experience seems so much nicer than around here. They have all kinds of activities at school, the kids seem more social and kinder, and there’s no shame in aiming to go to college at some place like Wisconsin or Iowa. Just seems like a much better experience.[/quote]

This sounds like exactly the kind of experience my kids had at Wilson/Jackson Reed High School.  Perhaps all you folks that live in these competitive UMC communities in MD and VA should move to DC.[/quote]

I was scanning this thread up to this point thinking, "where do these people live? Must be suburbia!"  Not really DC [b]Urban[/b] Moms/Dads.

At least among our public school friends, we have not experienced this intense competition, except for sports. There are too few slots for sports.

I had been wondering about moving to the suburbs for "better" schools and a big yard and lower crime, but this thread reminds me that it just might be just trading in one set of problems for another.

I guess if many people move to an area specifically for "better" schools, they're already starting the competition.[/quote]

I live in DC and only half agree. We are in DCPS and I agree there's less of they hyper competitive pressure cooker environment here. But I still enounter lots of hyper-competitive people, including parents who can be intensely competitive about sports, activities, academics, etc.

We live on the Hill and another thing that emerges is that because of the disjointed MS/HS situation here, there's competition around the lottery and spots at charters, as well as application high schools and privates. The lottery competition is especially ridiculous -- it's a lottery! It's pure luck! I think the unevenness of schools over here combined with a lot of parents in pretty high powered and/or high paying jobs means that there's a lot of fundamental insecurity over if people are doing the right or best thing for their kids.

So it might not be the kind of competition people have in Bethesda or in parts of NoVa, I definitely still feel it and notice how the intense personalities and especially parents who attended "elite" schools can really ramp up parenting anxiety across the board in ways I really don't enjoy. You really have to shut it out and just do your thing, but it's absolutely more intense than in other parts of the country.[/quote]

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