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I guess if you think only one person is posting, you might think the posts are inconsistent, but I posted once and yes, I will cop to the "only for losers" post.   I "went high school" -- think fighting fire with fire, but it was a lapse -- to make the point that, to use your world, it is "bizarre" for people who have gone to college and/or grad school to care more about high school.  Go listen to Bruce Springsteen and "Glory Days" -- if you're fixated on high school 20 years later, you have issues.  Your post also appears to suggest you only socialize with DC natives -- many of the rest of us aren't from here, don't Hail to the Redskins (although I wish them well), and don't think about our high schools very often.
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That you aren’t from DC and don’t care where people went to high school doesn’t mean that many of the natives doesn’t care. You are just saying they shouldn’t because you don’t . To you it is “bizarre” behavior.

It’s not bizarre to them. It’s the way things are. And although they might not socialize with one another exclusively, I’d say “mostly” might describe it.
These people have forged life-long associations at many of these schools. So it’s about more than recalling “Glory Days”.

You are apparently oblivious to this. But that’s not surprising. You just don’t realize how Balkanized a world DC is.

When people ask you, “Are you from here?”, they really want to get to the follow-up question of “Where did you go to high school?”.  It’s a short cut to understanding what crowd   --- or clan --- you are associated with. Where you went to college gives them no information about what part of DC you are from, who your friends are, etc. So they genuinely don’t care.

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