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Academics I feel is even worse.  Explain to me why the "Well to do schools" are so much sought after?  I mean there are plenty of good sports teams from East Rockville for example.  If I take my kid somehow to the "rich" schools, will they get the same opportunities the celebrity students get.  I seriously doubt it.

I feel sorry for smart (smart) kids that don't have any athletic talents and are academically minded but in poor families.  No way those kids will have any outlet.  Maybe they'll make a magnet program.  All those tests are just too easy to fake.[/quote]

Competitive parents want their kids in the most competitive schools. Being the "smart" kid at a dummy school just means you get your butt kicked at college or the real world when you finally get around aggressive cutthroat peers. Same with sports. Playing on a mediocre team against mediocre talent doesn't make you good. It makes you delusional.

Competitive parents --> competitive schools --> competitive colleges --> competitive internships --> competitive major cities

You want to check-out and go play no-cut intramurals and send your kid to a degree mill where few kids care about school, go ahead. But DC is a "super zip code" area full of highly competitive Type-A people who wanna be around highly-competitive peers.[/quote]

Of course.  All reasonable people know that there are only two options for literally anything in life: cut-throat or checked-out.   :roll:

A perfect illustration of why our society is in decline.[/quote]

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