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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, outside of the 100M+ crowd, I would say yes this is still a thing.  There are great opportunities to work at many DC private schools. Maybe not if you’re trying to get into the jet set crowd, but if you want a better chance at a good job after college, private school networking can help.[/quote]

We never thought of our kids education as a place to network but I can tell certain families are really leaning into this networking thing and it is really disingenuous. I think certain schools attract this sort of networking seeking family more than others so pay attention to the crowd at certain schools if you are trying to avoid this behavior, OP. It can actually affect your kid and family we are finding because if the "in crowd" of parents writes off you or your family as not belonging to the right club or being in the right business to help their family or help their kid then your kid will suffer the consequences. Kids feel it and quickly pick up on why xxx is always invited to xxx but your kid is not (despite that being their best friend) etc.... It is not once in a while, it becomes engrained in the social fabric of the school and there after....

The plus side is it is a great way to avoid disingenuous people who make the wrong assumptions about you based on things such as your home value etc.. [b]We actually have quite a large trust in our family under a different name and our family[/b] (both my spouses and my side) own and are involved in many things that the networking crowd I think would be very interested in but we purposely hide it very well. [b]Avoid networkers if you want nice genuine people in your life - we do.[/b] [/quote]

One of your relatives probably did a lot of insincere, self-serving networking.[/quote]

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