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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please name the schools that you’re talking about so we can avoid them!![/quote]

Families who can afford these schools already have friends and associates at them before they apply. It's a small handful of social climbing interlopers who genuinely struggle. The rest of this babble is public school trolls who serial post about how everyone richer, skinnier, smarter and/or more successful than them is cruel, with druggy kids, and must be financially overextended. It's all a cope. Idle malcontents on the outside looking in.[/quote]

We've been in DC since PK but my kid ended up at a Big3 where we didn't know anyone well.  We probably know 10+ families (well) at each of the other two. 
I wouldn't recommend doing this.  It's been a rough adjustment for my kid who is now a sophomore.  He/she is finally hitting his/her social stride.  It's hard to break into a school where 
many of the friendships are between the lifers.  They have been very insular and the rest of the grade sort of just floats around in isolation to one degree or another.  [/quote]

It makes total sense and is normal for the lifer students and their families, with lifelong ties and large giving and connections to the board, have stronger bonds than relatively transient and transactional first-gen high school families. You’re just a visitor. People treat transient renters the same way. If you’re a homeowner long-term invested in a community, you’re not going to bend over backwards to befriend some bureaucrat you know will be moving on in 12 months. What’s the point.[/quote]

NP: From a school's perspective, they may be the next generation of multi-generational lifers when your family line dies out.[/quote]

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