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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not quite sure about the PPs who are all talking about Oakton HS being so completely rich and snobby. I live in one of the large townhome communities that border that HS (there are MANY such communities) and none of us are rich. And there's a lot of us. So this seems like a stereotype with little factual backing. While there are probably few very low-income students who attend OHS (though some), I doubt the student population is as monolithically rich as some people are purporting it to be. [/quote]

We used to live in one of the townhouses near Oakton HS. $600k town house, BTW. My kids were looked down on at Oakton ES as “the poors”— with 2 parents doing professional jobs.  Oakton is not monolithicly rich, but a lot of social capital (for parents and kids) is based on the size of your house,  the type of car your drive, and your “stuff”.  It wasn’t so bad for DS, but for DD, we found that the Queen Bees and Wanna Bes crap started early, and was somewhat parent driven, with some parents pushing their kids to have “the right” friends— the top 1% and not the top 5%. [/quote]

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