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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nice post.
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I'm not sure what he said.

Was it, "I went to Landon but I knew some kids from other schools and we acknowledged one another at parties."?

These schools are pretty insular. Fot the most part Landon kids hang out with Landon kids during their high school years and after. Same for GP and Gonzaga.[/quote]

Allow me to clarify:

Members of my hockey team spent a lot of time together before and after practice and on road trips. One of my best friends went to Bullis. Two other close friends went to St. Andrews. Naturally I also had friends at Landon, and they, too, had friends from their neighborhoods and/or other schools.

So the point was that, while the plural of anecdote is not data, I can provide several examples of people who were not as "insular" as this thread implies. If a small group of DC area Catholics are hung up on the idea that sending boys to Landon (or another non-Catholic school) is somehow a sign of apostasy, then there's not much to be done about that other than feel sorry for those people.

Many people at the various schools hang out with people from their own school because of inertia and they don't get the opportunity to do things that involve people from other schools.

Credit for my exposure to others outside my allegedly insular environment goes primarily to my parents, who provided me with opportunities outside of Landon and who, until I got my license, were willing to drive me out to places I couldn't reach by bike (as I mentioned, I lived in CC while many others lived in Potomac, McLean, Arlington or other points even further out in the wilds outside the Beltway).

Once I could drive, those friendships were already cemented, so they continued into my later high school years and beyond.

So, if you want your kids to have a more diverse group of friends, look at what you're doing to facilitate their exposure to peers beyond their immediate environment.  By the time they're juniors and seniors in high school it's too late.

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I'm not a Landon fan at all, but your posts are thoughtful and well reasoned. You seem like a good man. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

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