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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's me, your local testaholic!

The local lists are starting to come out.

https://www.mymcmedia.org/158-county-students-named-national-merit-semifinalists/

Congrats to the following MoCo non-publics whose students made the list:

Holton-Arms School (5)
Georgetown Preparatory School (3)
Our Lady of Good Counsel High School (2)
Heights School (1)
Landon School (1)
Living Grace Christian School (1)
Sandy Spring Friends School (1)
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (1)
Washington Waldorf School (1)
Yeshiva of Greater Washington (1)
Homeschool (1)

Congrats especially to Living Grace Christian School (tuition $5,750) and Yeshiva of Greater Washington ($19,950), which I have never seen on this board, for tying perpetual DCUM topics Landon  ($52,360) and SSFS ($43,200), and defeating Bullis ($53,405 tuition, zero NMSF).

[Yes, I know the school doesn't necessarily have that much to do students' success on the SAT -- intentionally so, via test design -- but I enjoy being snarky.]
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Thank you for sharing this! My DC is a Freshman but it is interesting to see the results.

For the sheer volume of bashing that MCPS and all public schools in general get by parents on this sub-forum, it was eye-opening to see the results of our MCPS HS compared to the most expensive Privates around here. I teach my kids to be gracious and I will do the same.

Congratulations to every student- homeschooled or public schooled or private schooled, who made it to the list!! I am sure your hard work paid off!

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8.8% of Sidwell’s seniors are NMSFs this year. Which MoCo public has a higher percentage? I’m not trying to argue…just genuinely curious. [/quote]

Montgomery Blair was about 6%. Not trying to argue, just genuinely more impressed with MB's results considering the cost. Signed, private school parent
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I’m more impressed with kids who are both smart and rich (a genetic and socioeconomic lottery winner). But good for the striving Blair students. Maybe their children will be both smart and rich private school students too. Each generation should do better than the last. [/quote]

Wow.  Signed someone who could have gone private and could have sent her kids private but chose not to to avoid snobs like you. Be best.[/quote]

It seems like you woke up today determined to have your feelings hurt, huh? Why would you resurrect a post/thread that died off weeks ago? 
Try to enjoy your day, ma’am, and don’t let anyone steal your joy! 🥹 [/quote]

Actually, the post was last posted on this morning.  That's how I saw it.  But no response to the content?  Got it.  Snobbery is AOK for you.[/quote]

Snobbery is a fact of life, dear. You will encounter snobs in both public and private schools. I don’t spend my time avoiding places I want to be because I **may** encounter snobs there. 
If there are people I wish to avoid at a particular place…I simply avoid them. 
However, you are free to spend your life avoiding any and all places where there’s even a remote possibility of encountering people you don’t like. [/quote]

Thanks for the confirmation that private school parents have no problem with elitism and consider themselves superior.  It's funny, because I had pressured my child to go private, but I'm glad he had more sense than me.[/quote]

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