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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, this is pretty common even in the middle-of-the-pack neighborhoods. We're in Annandale outside of the beltway and there is plenty of helicoptering. There are also plenty of more chill parents, and kids do walk and bike to school. I think you and your kids will find their way to families more like yours mainly because you will be judged unworthy by the strivers. But it will take time.[/quote]

Also live in Annandale outside the Beltway and you and I must define helicoptering differently, or we're at different schools. I know 2nd graders who walk to and from school alone (K is the only grade that must be picked up by an adult, per FCPS rules). Pressure to get kids into AAP is entirely peer group dependent. There are some sports strivers, but they don't judge anyone who is not like them - as a PP said they are too busy with what they are already doing. Same with music. The few families that are on an intense track don't care that my kids aren't. They care that their own kids are excelling. I'm sure our school has some obnoxious parents, but teacher turnover doesn't seem excessively high.[/quote]

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