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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a very strange thread, "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful" or something.  I find it hard to believe that you're being besieged by angry public school parents, and I say that as a private school parent myself.

It's not rocket science: you do owe them courtesy but you don't owe them lots of personal information. Same rules apply to everybody else in your life.[/quote]

I too find these threads odd; this isn't the only one, so clearly either this happens in an uncomfortable way or else DCUM parents fret that it might.

We've been private for four years now, and we've never had an awkward interaction of this type.  I don't think anyone has ever come out and asked us "why not the local public school?" though some have asked us why we chose the school we did, which I suppose could implicitly been that question.  We just basically try to answer the question

1) Honestly, in terms of what we were looking for,
2) Without getting unnecessarily detailed, and
3) Without criticizing any other school, whether public or private.

I wouldn't do #3 under any circumstances, there's no call for it.[/quote]

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