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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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This notion that high schools dominate the employment and social dynamics of Washington, D.C. pops up regularly on Landon and Georgetown Prep threads.  My sense is that it's more of an inflated Catholic feeling of importance than anything else, but I'm not certain about that at all. Every school has alumni associations and I'm sure many hiring managers given the choice between two equally qualified candidates would hire a fellow alum. However, few who would hope to retain their own positions would ever hire an unqualified person simply because they happen to be alums.

Then as already stated, Washinton, D.C. is an international city. It is the Capital City of the most powerful nation on Earth. The notion that D.C. is being controlled by secret fraternal orders like the Brothers of the Bell, operating out high schools is patently absurd. [/quote]

Talk about missing the point, perhaps willfully.

This balkanization has little to do with "hiring managers", although it seems to impact patient referrals and the client bases of estate attorneys and accountants and insurance agents.

It has little to so with alumni associations and fraternal orders and more to do with the social networks. Most here have little to do with the international nature of the City or with even politics. But if you are in that world you may think that's what everybody does and cares about.

You are flying at 40,000 ft. You are a visitor here and likely to remain that. It's OK. No one wants to recruit you into any of these insular groups.

Go in peace.[/quote]

This does seem like one of the warmed over Catholic intramural threads, or the ones where people assert that no good Catholic would allow their child to go to Landon or St. Albans.  Take a leaf from Pope Francis's book and (a) stop judging; and (b) if you can't stop judging, find something less inane than where people went to high school to judge by.[/quote]

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