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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Potomac > Langley. No question.  [/quote]

I don't get it.  Why spend big bucks for high school? I went to some of the best universities in the nation that DCUM types rave about.  I was a poor kid from a Chicago area public high school with a singler mother who never went to college.  Worked hard and was well prepared. That was what mattered. My two kids went to Princeton.  Both attemded FCPS public schools.  I could never fathom the rationale behind private school.  My so-called prestige top 10 university had plenty of prep school kids, and they by and large were no better academically than the public school kids.

I could see a rationale for kids with special needs of some kind - perhaps social adjustment -  but for the typical well adjusted kid FCPS schools do just fine.  [/quote]

You couldn’t fathom the rationale for private school but your kids went to Princeton.  Why didn’t you send them to VT or GMU?

Langley has a veneer of exclusivity because there are no poor kids but the academics are basically the same as at any other public high school.  Students get a far more rigorous curriculum and more personal attention, especially when it comes to developing writing and speaking skills, at Potomac.  Classes at Potomac are closer to the model of the Princeton precepts, which you simply won’t find at Langley. [/quote]

My kids went to  Princeton because they wanted to.  I didn't send them. What an absurd notion.  They made their own choice andi I did not hover, monitor their homework, or influence their decisions. Having to scratch on my own my own way since age 18, yes I paid for it all as my single mother never attended college and I merely desired to make the next generation in a better place.  I completed against VTech in my D1 athletic days and got to know some Tech people well. If my kids chose Tech as a fit, I would have been happy to support them.  Having come from a challenging place, the most important thing is for kids to be happy, and the Ivy League is no guarantee of that. My wife - educated in Montreal was an extraordinary student and the kids received their talent from her. I didn't need to send them anywhere. and they didn't need prep school.
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