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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My spouse went to TJ in the 90s, and I went to a private school in the same time frame.  Test scores at my private school were probably comparable to TJ.  Years later, it's been interesting to see the professional success of our peers.  The TJ kids have done well, but my private school peers have done better.  Our kids are in private school and will remain there.  If you can afford it, the social advantages of private school last a lifetime. Also, my spouse's TJ peers have generally opted for private school too.  Their choice is telling.  [/quote]

What nonsense.  Your school's test scores almost surely were not comparable to TJ's, and who believes that you've tracked the lives of your classmates and those of your spouse's that carefully? Obviously, private school gave you no social advantages, or you wouldn't be so smug and annoying.

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Many TJ grads stayed in the DC area.  Between Facebook and LinkedIn, it's not hard to track.  There are comparable high schools.  For example, St. Albans is in the ballpark.  There are others.

Sorry if I sounded smug because that was not my intention.  I was trying to offer a different perspective.  If you don't believe me, talk to successful TJ grads in their 30s and 40s.  More importantly, look where their kids are going. [/quote]

You sound both insufferably smug [b]and[/b] deeply anxious about your own position in life. No adult who was confident in his/her own success would track high-school acquaintances' "achievement" and "success" (which presumably you define only as high income?) via Facebook and LinkedIn.[/quote]

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