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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We recently moved two children to private. We are in VERY good MCPS cluster.  And this move did raise some eyebrows, but for the most part people were very polite with their comments. Most people either never heard of the private, or if they knew the school, said it was a great place. No negative comments at all.  "Good luck" and "We'll miss you" we're the dominant phrases. Perhaps we just live in a community of more civil folks.[/quote]

My suspicion is that OP is an elitist pain in the ass.  OP wrote: "Thing is, it has always been our plan to go private for middle and high school, even before we lived here and even before I met these people."  So OP hasn't been hemming and hawing, debating the merits of each program.  OP is one of those people who fundamentally believes private schools are better. End sentence.

As another poster noted, any decision to pull your kid from public to private is by necessity a statement that you don't think publics are good enough for your kid and that you have higher standards than your friends staying in public. But at least most people who pull their kids weigh the pros and cons of each vis a vis their kid - like maybe the kid is special needs and the public isn't meeting those needs. Or the kid is really into music, and the public music program has been significantly cut. But it's a different breed when someone knows from the birth of their kid that it's private or bust. That they couldn't even deign to consider public. These folks usually think that privates schools are so superior, and that the kids in them are a superior breed. So if OP has been trotting out the line since her kid was in PK that OP is private all the way, then I'm guessing her loss of friends is more related to the fact that OP is an insufferable elitist, and less about her decision to go public.  [/quote]

PP, you sound like a jerk, as well as a pain in the ass.  NP here.  No, it's quite possible that OP moved into Alexandria KNOWING the schools' weaknesses -- they are quite well known -- and had decided to go private at the middle school level, given the stunning weakness of the public schools above the elementary level.   [/quote]

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