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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To answer questions on the prior page, the PP is lying about attending PTO meetings in 2014 because she wants to claim that "anyone" could have predicted that Maury would become a sought after elementary back then and could have done what she did before buying IB for Maury. She wants to take credit for her kid attending a great elementary that 10 years, people did not think was that great. She rejects the idea that, to some degree, your school choices on the Hill depend on the luck of timing.

I don't know why people are so determined to convince themselves of this. I guess so they can judge friends and neighbors and random people on the internet? Maybe people don't want to admit the degree to which life is sometimes just a game of chance. The refusal to recognize one's one good fortune, and to attribute all of the good things in your life to your own choices, is common. It is also, generally, wrong.

That's why the PP is digging in so hard on her story, which is almost certainly greatly embellished. We also bought a home on the Hill in 2014, and my recollection is that inventory was painfully low and houses sold incredibly quickly unless you were paying cash. We made a list of acceptable IB schools and looked at houses for all of them. They included Maury, Brent, L-T, the Cluster, and a couple others... I can't remember as it was a while ago. We bought the best house that we could find and get our offer accepted. We didn't yet have kids and we both have demanding jobs, so the idea of attending multiple PTO meetings for schools we weren't even sure we'd attend (one thing we like about the Hill is that there are also quite a few charter options that are a reasonable commute, and we actually wound up at TR anyway despite being IB for L-T) was not even on our radar.

We were lucky to be able to afford to buy, we were lucky that the IB school continued on a good trajectory after we bought, we were lucky to get a lottery spot at a school we really like, etc. We aren't geniuses. We have friends who were not lucky in these ways and we don't think we are better than them. We think it's a huge bummer that education in DC often depends so much on privilege and luck.[/quote]

DP. Omg let it go! What’s underlying all this? We bought IB for Maury in 2012 and it was clear then it was a solid choice. Not sure why you have such a bee in your bonnet about how that PP went about researching schools. Going to the PTO meetings is actually a really good idea that I’m going to do for MS. [/quote]

I never said it wasn't a solid choice. I just don't believe PP that she did this and I get annoyed when people on these boards act like navigating schools in DC is easy if you just do what they did, when often they just had some good fortune and good timing. PP is lying about going to PTO meetings or she is lying about how useful they were -- one or the other. I've been to enough PTO meetings to find her story incredibly suspect.

You can go to PTO meetings for MS if you want, but since which MS you attend is based entirely on luck in the lottery or where you are IB (or where you are already attending elementary) it's irrelevant. But I guess I look forward to you coming to these boards in a few years after your kid lucks into Latin or you move IB for Deal, to explain condescendingly to others that if they'd just put the legwork in, they'd be in the same advantageous situation as you.

Money and luck, folks.  [/quote]

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