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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]and I don't know what to do about it.  It is a great school but I am miserable.My kids seem happy and that its what matters.  I am miserable[/quote]

Translation: I’m a striver and the rich cool parents haven’t invited me into their orbit. Sorry your social climbing scheme hasn’t worked. If you didn’t have a lot of rich outgoing friends before your kid went to private school — via your neighborhood, career, country club, college and private school alum network, travel sport circuit, church or synagogue — why would you have them now? You have nothing in common, you don’t speak their language, you don’t know so and so and so and so. And frankly, you’re delusional on what private school provides you as a parent. It doesn’t guarantee any parent some brand new social orbit. And anyone who goes in expecting or fishing for that is pegged a social climbing worm from the get-go.[/quote]

Translation: I'm a horrible human being who will judge you based on your job, clothes, country club, friends, school. I am one of those moms who will give you my elevator pitch on where I went to college twenty years ago, every job I have had since then, and I'll be sure to let you know how rich I am. I am shallow and don't have much depth as a human being so when I see you don't have value you to me I'll ignore you and pretend you don't exist. But I sure am hell nice to people who I deem rich and worthy and you'll see me pandering and lollygagging around them. So if your neighborhood, career, country club, college and private school alumni network aren't up to mine don't bother talking to me.[/quote]

Are you new here, sweetie? Welcome to Washington. Don’t act like some babe in the woods when you moved to the most ruthlessly competitive, superficial and status and power obsessed place in the Western Hemisphere. Then chose to send your kid to an even more stratified private school. As for OP, if nobody liked him/her before the kid was in private, why would they magically like them now? Nobody likes a thirsty low born interloper; especially a creepy 30, 40 or 50 something one (we’re a long ways from being teenagers first week of college). If you’re that hard up for a friend, go get a spaniel.[/quote]

DP. Holy shit are you okay? You sound off the hinges psychotic and mean. Op never said no one disliked them before private. They are saying they want to feel welcome at their kids new private. I suspect you may be part of the group she is referring to and now you feel you need to defend yourself and attack op? Please be a better person. [/quote]

Context is key. Dislike in this context doesn't mean disliked in general, in life, we are specifically referring to the pedigreed private school parents the striver OP seeks to orbit. The point is if OP is an outsider, not a peer or a mutual i.e. friend of a friend to this network of parents, why would she suddenly become fast friends with them just because her kid goes to school there? It is delusional. It is actually pretty wormy and creepy to think or hope that your kid's new school gives you a new group of higher status friends. And if OP's obsessed enough to make a thread crying about it, it certainly projects in real life, which makes her seem transparently pushy and sketchy to the very people she seeks to orbit. You only get one first impression, you know. Rich and powerful are pretty guarded. In Washington, you could be Project Veritas or some foreign spook for all they know. Or just a low born waste of their time. Sorry, only so many hours in a day.[/quote
We are a at a Big 3 and honestly I can't think of anyone who is considered to be powerful or even that rich with the exception of maybe 2 families and they are quite nice. They are rich for DC but in NY would be middle of the road. [/quote]

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