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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is amazing how many members of the Catholic Mafia care more about where their son/daughter goes to HIGH SCHOOL rather than COLLEGE.[/quote]

This is a very entertaining comment as I think of a family in our neighborhood whose sons went the Little Flower/Gonzaga route and who are now at Dartmouth and Middlebury.  It would seem that college was appropriately prioritized.[/quote]

You don't really understand what that oft-repeated phrase means.

It means that when these kids get back to DC after college, their friendships will be with their grade school and high school friends. They settle back into the somewhat insular DC area Catholic community. Where they went to college seems to get lost. No one in their circle of life-long friends cares where they went to college, but they do care where you went to high school.

So it's not that going to a good college is not important. But where you went to high school is much more a determinant of where you live in DC, who you marry, who your friends are, where you play golf, where your kids go to school, etc., etc, then is where you went to college.  The college ties seem to evaporate quickly. The high school ties are the ones that matter. Not to everyone in DC, but to the Catholic high school crowd for sure.[/quote]

I fail to see how this is different from other faith-based organizations/schools in this area--lots of life-long camaraderie among those who are Episcopal, Jewish, Muslim, etc.  For the record, my husband's closest circle of friends to this day are his MoCo public high school buddies, many of whom left the area for college but eventually returned to the DC area for jobs and to raise family.  These have been much more enduring friendships than any from undergrad, grad school, or the military.  This Catholic-bashing is very puzzling---but nothing new on DCUM.[/quote]

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