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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:36  Some would consider the fact that you have lived in DC for twenty years makes you pretty provincial.  [/quote]

I suspect that I am older than you, so perhaps your youth limits your ability to imagine the possibilities.  I wrote that I have lived in DC for "over twenty years."  That is true, but though those twenty-plus years mark my total time in DC, they have not been continuous.  I have lived and worked various stints abroad, in Asia and Europe, and domestic, on the west coast, in between.

Perhaps, you are right, I have seen enough of our own country and the world to recognize and humbly acknowledge that most of our Inside-The-Beltway celebrities have no recognition, generate no respect, exercise no influence, and have no power in places from Rye to Riyadh.  And frankly, the "DC celebrity" class does not really care, as long as they are perceived and treated as all of those things here in DC (which they are).

Why obsess and envy the 3-5 percent of your children's classmates whom you consider to have "DC celebrity" parents?  It seems to bother you, I think wrongly, because you believe that they received preferential treatment in private school admissions.   Believe me, most of the ones you consider to be "DC celebrities" are not worth the headache, problems, and heartache of admitting an unqualified candidate.

Enjoy the company of your fellow school parents, [b]most of us just are ordinary people[/b].[/quote]

We're probably all in agreement that you're ordinary, as most parents are. This thread is a colossal comprehension fail by "worldly" posters such as yourself.
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