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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dunno.

My experience - with two kids in college who were private school lifers at top DC area privates - is the opposite. I think most people around here push their kids far more than the norm.  The DC parents we know are insanely tiger-ish imo.  Expectations for kids are off the charts.

The biggest parenting failure I see is not teaching kids to treat everyone around them with respect and kindness regardless of age/race/wealth/ circumstances/etc.

So it’s probably who you are surrounded by and who you pay attention to. 
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Yet you chose to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to put your kids in what you feel compelled to tell us were "top" privates.  But, no, YOU'RE not pushy or competitive.  You're different. [/quote]

Those schools only push the kids- and some still don’t get take your $50k - for grades 9-12. 
Ld schools may provide some value. 
We met many parents there so their child didn’t have to compete in large strong public or magnet schools. So went with a small 100-130 person classes of a Dc private school that could barely field a decent team sport team. [/quote]

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