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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is interesting to me is the idea that it is Janney families that either (1) perpetuate the jklm moniker or (2) try to exclude Murch from the "m."

my guess is it is a Mann booster (note the singular) that tries to push the m is for Mann agenda, who else has time for that?

And I doubt many care about the broader perception, we are not trying to get our kids into the right application middle school so that we can send our kids to the right application high school for the leg up to get into Harvard.  I think all Janney families want is a good education and positive experience for their children.  Being part of an exclusive 4 letters is not that big a deal and it means even less outside of dcum.  There is more incentive to downplay how good the school is, we do not need more kids at the school.

I am sure (and certainly hope) that there are other schools that families are equally happy with.  The fact is, once you are in a school and it is working well for your family that is what you know and that is what you speak well of.

I know families well in Arlington, Great Falls, Potomac, Los Altos, CA, etc and they all think their kids school is the best.  It is because it is what we know, it is working well, and we have no good means to judge other schools.  This is a lake Wobegone phenomenon.

I think my kids' school is great, I don't have an opinion about the rest of the alphabet of schools that generally are performing well because I have no basis for such an opinion.  It does not bother me if someone else thinks their school is equally great.  I hope it is.  Changing the perception of what tier a school is on by attacking schools in the tier you want to be in as someone trying to keep you out is not particularly useful to the discussion.

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Murch is a decent school - top of the second tier but it is not first JKLM tier.  Maybe in 5 or 10 years, who knows, it will be up to the JKLM level.  
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