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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are they saying "well my kid went to Public HS and is going to Same Ivy" or are they just...sharing where their kid got it?[/quote]

This. If someone is saying "Well Larla is also going to Yale and that's without having blown 300k on private tuition" then by all means say "Congratulations but I have no regrets about private school because it was the learning environment we thought would best prepare our kids for college and beyond." Like just don't engage on the premise that private school is about getting into top colleges (especially because this is not a good reason to send kids to private schools!).

But I suspect that what is actually happening is that OP knows people who are just sharing the good news of their kid getting into top schools and OP is mentally doing the math on how those kids were able to do that without spending money on private school tuition and feeling like a chump and wants to one-up these people somehow as an act of defensiveness. This is all about OP's insecurities and nothing to do with the other people. As I said, sending your kids to private just to get into highly competitive colleges is a fool's errand -- it doesn't always work out that way and it's way too much money to view as an investment in a specific outcome. You have to choose private for it's intrinsic qualities and accept that college is going to work out the way it works out -- not every kid is Ivy League material even at very competitive private HSs.[/quote]

OP LITERALLY says the comments are passive aggressive so stop implying that she’s sensitive to the topic and taking it the wrong way. Everyone knows that colleges and universities cannot fill their classes with solely private school kids so of course, public school kids will be there.  I hate it when public school parents find their way into this forum. [/quote]

No, OP says she thinks they are passive aggressive. She is reading their minds. Impressive.

Presumably, Op is announcing where her DD got in. But the other parent shouldn’t (is not allowed to) do the same? Is OP that fragile that others have to police simple statements of fact? Or is it because the other parent’s child went to public and sharing that child’s results is in bad taste? Or unworthy? Would it be ok for the other parent to share if their kid also went to private?

As a private school parent, I find your last sentence hilarious.  You and OP should be friends.

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