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[quote=Anonymous]DC and its surrounding near-suburbs are a place for the elite. Bethesda, for instance, is one of the best-educated communities in the United States. You have a professional elite intellectual class that is highly accomplished, spawning children that they are setting along the same path.

DC has more resources than you'd expect from a city of its size. It's not NYC, but it's got a huge amount of culture and a huge number of possible activities for children to participate in. Nobody obsesses about high school football because there are so MANY interesting things going on.

Now, if you want a locale whose top excitement is the progress of the local football team, and everyone is super into who is dating who in high school and other gossip (and the kids marry their high school sweethearts, so it matters), you're not going to find it here. Even if you move out to Loudoun, as some have suggested, that small-town insularity simply isn't present.

Furthermore, modern parenting is different. Childhood, especially for the children of upper-middle class professionals, is a more curated experience. It's not necessarily [i]sheltered[/i], but rather parents are more deliberate in seeking particular experiences for their kids. Most kids are not going to be allowed a lot of unsupervised partying. One, the kids are busy; they just don't have the time. Two, many parents are very responsible, which means that they will limit teenage access to alcohol and to what they view as bad peer influences.

Also, honestly, modern high school athletics are different. Training is intensive, especially at the high school level. Sports isn't an excuse to get together with buds and party hard; athletics involves a lot of work, and many sports require year-round training. Lots of different sports are available, so there's not an obsessive interest in just a single sport, like football (or lacrosse). [/quote]

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