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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plus, if your kid goes to Nysmith, you get one of those car magnets that says "Nysmith School for the [i]Gifted[/i]" so everyone knows how special your snowflake is!

If I was shelling out $30K to send my kid to private, Nysmith would not be on my list.  With a 150 IQ, there are better places to spend that tuition money.[/quote]

The kids do that at academic competitions too. It’s super obnoxious and the kids from other schools make fun of them behind their back— public school kids and private school kids.  Larla introduces herself at a debate tournament and says “I’m Larla from my Nysmith School for the Gifted”.  Meanwhile, the Carson and Sidwell kids just say, “I’m Larlo from Rachel Carson/ Sidwell Friends”.  Then Carson and Sidwell sweep the awards and Nysmith comes in at the bottom.  Without saying “I’m Larlo from Rachel’s Carson’s Advanced Adademics Program”.   As parents, we tell the kids to knock it off and remind them that that is the name of the school and not the kids being pompous.  But, they have a point.  It’s obnoxious. Especially since all the FCPS kids know kids from their base school who were sent to Nysmith because they couldn’t get into AAP.

If you really are gifted, you should have to announce it every 5 minutes.  And since this happens every single time across 3 different academic competitions involving my 2 kids, it has to be something the school coaches them to do, rather than one kid or one team.  Don’t they realize how their kids come off? [/quote]

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