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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the thing….

People who can actually afford these schools and belong there don’t care about prestige, rigor or college admissions.

Your the rube trying to place yourself adjacent to them… which is why people will call you a striver,

The rest don’t care about those sophomoric concerns.

Do they end up with the end goal you sweat and toil over, yes but not why and how you hope it’s happening.

Inside the bubble it’s not opaque… it’s only opaque from the outside looking in.[/quote]

You are a good example of what I am describing: people tying a school to their social status (“Inside the bubble, it’s not opaque.”)

My only metric is the quality of the education. And by that metric, the top private school my child attends is failing.[/quote]

So why are you there? Serious question! If I were naming the top high school in the area as far as quality of education, by reputation I think it would be TJ. That’s a public school.

I also feel like if you really want to be “elite” in this country, you don’t stay in DC. This is the backwoods.

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If TJ is so great, then why do multiple grads end of up JMU or GMU?  What happened there? Could have gotten to that same destination with a lot less effort. [/quote]

Money is one reason and they go to JMU for free.

Many are ecstatic to go to JMU engineering for free.

Mental health is the other. Many at TJ crash and burn mentally because they don’t want an “elite” education but their parents put all their delusions onto their kids.[/quote]

Like parents of stressed out kids in privates. [/quote]

Yes there are stressed out parents in private because they went for the wrong reasons.[/quote]

The kids are stressed out. Read for understanding. [/quote]

Yes wealthy kids that never have to worry about money, admissions or what job they’re gonna have also have stress and it’s usually from unrealistic expectations.

But they’re not stressed about their SAT score.[/quote]

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