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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I am glad to know that we are not the only people that feel this way!  [/quote]

What's interesting is that our neighbors and people we know in the wider neighborhood are "normal people" - they aren't any different from us and vice versa.  We like our neighbors and neighborhood.

But there definitely is such thing as school culture and DS' school (which has an involved parent community) differs markedly in its culture from that of our neighborhood school.  I think it's a matter of intensity for the most part, but yes, also diversity (DS' school is very diverse and while that's viewed as a negative by a lot of the people who post on here, it also exposes you to different perspectives/ways of approaching things - which is good practice for the real world as an adult).  And the species "North Arlington Parent" definitely has a reputation across the county and it's not all that complimentary.  During the couple years that DS played soccer, the just as white and educated parents of the kids on his team often had a lot of snarky comments about N Arlington parents and the assorted neuroses that they attributed to them.

I think the stories that I related above are in some ways "outliers" (as I said, we live in N Arlington and know lots of parents, but at the same time, I hear about the stereotype and periodically see it in action when talking to such outliers at parties etc).[/quote]

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