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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve heard gentrifying parents be referred to as “sacrificing their kid” if they send their kid to the local school.[/quote]

There was a panel with the parents and kids who went from a very nice elementary to the assigned middle school in DC. Glowing reviews.
Kids were fabulous and allegedly didn’t experience much hardship (a bit of schoolyard bullying). I was initially very excited but a little put off by what seemed to be a school within a school (most of these kids didn’t have most classes with their peers who came from the other feeder schools because they were in advanced classes). We then happened to encounter a couple of the children at a party shortly thereafter. The parents didn’t say anything more, but the children told our DC that the experience was very mixed, that they were expected to portray a rosy picture of everyone getting along, and told them in no uncertain terms that it was a pretty rough ride and to stay away it at all possible. It’s a true story with no particular lesson. I remember being shocked at the time but realized there’s a ton of self censorship in the stories people tell today. Good to check and not to hear just what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is real and cuts both ways[/quote]

This definitely happens. The omerta is real. [/quote]

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