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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Private school, especially one built on a set of values, like a Friends school, is just a completely different environment than a STEM and score obsessed public magnet. Believe it or not, many people do not just send their kids to these schools for a "competitive edge."

Unfortunately, if the only world you know is the TJ-type one, you just are living in a different reality. I went from SFS to UVa and was shocked by all of the NoVa kids who seemed  caught up in scores and rankings. My high school experience was really different and much more values based. We didn't have class rank or anything like that. If you can't accept that and think every parent (and student) is just focused on "winning," you definitely belong at the public magnet. 
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:D  What quaker values does a school charging 50k a year to educate a city's elite still retain? The competitive student body present in TJ is mirrored in SFS, it's just quieter. Maybe OP's kid missed the memo that the name on the diploma isn't enough anymore, but other kids working their butts off to be at the top of the class didn't[/quote]

As if MCPS and FCPS aren’t run according to the same values and yet the schools across the system aren’t nearly equal in quality. Everyone is a hypocrite in some part of their life. [/quote]

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