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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a vent.

I was chatting with a friend of 8 years the other day. She has a 5 year old; I have a 3.5 year old. Her kid is starting kindergarten in their local MCPS school this fall. We were talking about how big the kids are getting, etc.

My friend asked what we’re doing for kindergarten. I told her we’re going to be looking at private schools. She said, “why would you do that?!” I just said that it’s the right decision for us. She kept going. “MCPS is so good! I can’t imagine why *anyone* would do that, unless they had some special situation or something.”

We ended up moving on to other things, but it just really irked me. I don’t understand why people can’t just let everyone do what’s right for them.

Rant over. [/quote]

Welcome to my life. It's even more uncomfortable when it's your own extended family around holidays and summer gatherings. What makes it worse, 99% of the public boosters have never stepped foot in a private school, let alone studied the profiles and data and talked to current families. They're totally ignorant, it's just emotions and insecurities and stereotypes -- it's impossible to have an intelligent conversation with people like that.[/quote]

OP here. Yep. I went to a NE boarding school for high school. Most people who criticize those places as bastions of elite douchebag kids have zero exposure to those schools outside of watching Dead Poets Society. They have no concept of the fact that 50% of the kids are on financial aid, with the average grant covering 80% of tuition.

My extended family tut tutted about my parents letting me go there and then dismissed every single thing I did afterwards by saying “oh it’s just because she got connections from Andover.” [/quote]

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