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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Me too!  Except I think, "I'm no longer worried that we turned down the top 3 for the MoCo magnet."[/quote]
Off topic: What is it that drives so many public school parents on DCUM to take unsolicited potshots at private schools?  Of course I know the bullets fly both directions, and I've seen plenty of private school parents here make obnoxious comments about public schools.  And when the public & private parents get into trading insults and brags, both sides get ugly.  But it really seems to me like there are a ton of unsolicited jabs at private schools from public school parents.  Hardly a day goes by on DCUM without some public school parent taking a shot.  Why is that?

I don't think public school parents are any meaner than private school parents.  And I don't think it's jealousy because they clearly don't like private schools.  So I can't understand what drive so many public school parents to start unprovoked fights.  I'm not trying to start a fight.  This is a serious (but perhaps naive) question.  Any ideas?

TIA[/quote]

I suspect that a lot of these private-bashing public school parents are scorned applicants who still look for any opportunity to grind their axes. I also suspect there are a fair number who feel guilty or inadequate about either a) not having the wherewithal to afford the tuition or b) being too cheap to pay it and are looking to publicly justify their relative positions in some cathartic way.  I would say these two segments account for the vast majority of snark. Those who are truly comfortable with sending their kids to public school would have no reason or impulse to respond one way or the other.  [/quote]

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