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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're anything like me, you will be sorry you raised kids here. It is nothing like that dreamy, suburban upbringing you (and I) had. Especially at the NWDC privates. I have two high schoolers there now and they HATE it. My DD especially wishes she had grown up the way I did, and not the way her crazy, miserable faither, who grew up in DC and also went to one of the elitist privates did. If you can go back to Miami, you should. I would in a heartbeat, but my husband got us trapped here.[/quote]

What do they hate about it?[/quote]

[b]Very intense. Very elitist.[/b] My DH told my son the other day not to mention to anybody the back up schools he's applying to (he's a senior), because it might give people the wrong impression. My son laughed in disgust. [/quote]

I can answer this too.  The schools (Big3) are intense.  Endless homework.  Kids come from all over the DMV (from Southern Maryland to Loudoun to Gaithersburg) so this impacts the sense of community. 
Its the opposite of the big, happy high school experience that you see in the movies.

I also have kids who wouldn't choose again but at this point (10th and 12th) they're just going to ride it out.

If you're in the city, Wilson comes fairly close to what you're looking for.  Lots of school spirit, diverse student body (the jocks, the artsy kids, the goths, etc) but you have the added dimension of racial and economic diversity that you don't have at a typical suburban high school.

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