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[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]

There have always been a few kids like that.  They don't transition well to the rigor, they implode academically, something happens in their life.  
We3 can argue about whether the education is particularly good but the rigor is definitely hard to beat and the educational opportunities for the kids that can handle that rigor is very high.[/quote]

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