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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,  We are a white middle class family in a 2500sq ft  colonial in the Montgomery County suburbs (not Bethesda/Potomac.)  My daughter has been in private since 5th grade and we are extremely happy.  We applied to multiple schools and went with a more expensive private, as they offered us decent financial aid to help with the burden and we liked the feel of the school.  She has friends from all over the world, all races and all cultures - most that have more money than us and some that have less money than us.  And I find that in all the peer groups in high school, there are various SES levels.  The girls tend to hang out with who is involved in what sports and activities.  And maybe because there are white kids on FA and black kids with mansions, puts things in a better perspective than in a public where the majority means white/asians are smart/middle class and blacks/hispanics are dumb/low class.  The school has so much diversity that there is very little in the way of racial/SES issues. And that kids that are considered annoying nerds can be super rich and kids that are the popular jocks can be living in an apartment in Silver Spring.

And I also find that most foreigners are less likely to flaunt their money and many locals are likely to flaunt more than they have.  So we take it all in stride.  I have been to mansions, mcmansions, colonials, townhouses, and apartments to pick my child up.  I think she has made great decisions in her friends and I adore almost all of them.  She plays sports and is in the highest honors classes in school.  I can assure you she is extremely happy.

If anyone judged her based on her house or my minivan, she wouldn't be friends with them.  Not all kids are dying to be super rich.  She has a friend who barely sees her over-worked parents who travel all the time. She has a massive house and a live-in Nanny to share it with most of the time.  She complains all the time to my daughter about her parents missing all her games/events.  She loves to be at our house playing with our pets, my DD's little sisters, and having family dinners.  And I guess because we help out at a family shelter monthly and she sees that various SES levels below and above her at school, she seems very content with who she is and where she is from.

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Finally! Another normal soul on this board! We do exit![/quote]

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