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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] On the other hand, now that I am well versed in the bizzaro world that is DC private schools, I feel the need to share a big CALM THE HELL DOWN. Schools that are popular here, with the exception of a few, aren't ranked anywhere (except here) and the vast majority of people have never heard of them. DC isn't the center of the academic world. Newsflash - we moved to MoCo like idiots upon hearing the schools were amazing. Please.  I might send my dog, but I doubt it. 
With respect to the privates you're all going on about - Most of the schools here are average given the cost. So if your son needs to go to St. Johns instead of Potomac or your daughter is sad about not getting into NCS but accepted to Beauvoir, this is what you need to do: Picture the earth. zoom way out.... IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER. Some people can't afford anything. Be grateful![/quote]

[quote]It doesn't really matter...and yet it does.  Or you would keep your kid in Mo. Co. Public, right?  It's kinda [b]like being in a sorority in college...nobody cares which one your in when you go home for the summer or visit a school without them (and especially once you graduate). But it sure is good to be in the best one while you're there[/b];) I think 99% of these folks are grateful, but they are like all of us. We want "the best" for our kids and despite not necessarily knowing what that is, we want to strive for it.  That's all...it's pretty simple and pure.  I don't think there's anything sinister and it's fairly common to get worked up over your kid whether you got rejected from Andover in "New England" or the football team in Topeka...it's all the same shit.  And as women, we like to hash through it over and over and then you have 17 pages.  Basic math 101 that I learned in my public and private education.[/quote]

I think a lot of people also want the bumper sticker/magnet for the car. The bolded above seems to apply to the parents more than the kids.[/quote]

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