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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gilman[/quote]

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in the 80s and had never heard of any private school anywhere.  Teen Magazine did a spread on Gilman sometime in the mid 80s and it had all these preppy, clean-cut boys in the pictures.  Something about it stuck with me as a quintessential example of everything I was not and did not know.  I ended up, miraculously, at an Ivy and met kids from all the big private schools, although was friends with none of them because they did not hang out with a kid like me.  That was when I heard of Sidwell and St.Albans.  I can’t really remember other DC schools, can remember kids from most of the  East Coast boarding schools and the NY and CA privates.

I ended up meeting and falling in love with a guy (who has been my husband now for 20 years) at college who went to a fancy NY suburban public school but who came from an old Baltimore family.  His cousins all went to Gilman.  To this day, I think about that Teen Magazine article when I am around the men in his family.  I have known them for decades, but a little part of me is still that girl from nowhere who is impressed by [b]the ease with which they navigate the world[/b].  [/quote]

Good post. Can you describe this ease a little more?[/quote]

I grew up middle class, was taught general etiquette and manners (ie which fork to use), but once I started working in DC with some people who went to prep schools, sent their kids to schools or both it became evident how much of its own world it is and how little I knew about it or how to navigate it. Would love to hear more [/quote]

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