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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take that to mean that the FA kids aren’t included?[/quote]

There's certainly that, but a lot of the Far Upper NW/Lower MoCo kids seem to look down on kids from Silver Spring or Virginia. [/quote]

Are all of the NW DC privates like this - e.g., GDS, Sidwell, St Albans/NCS?  This has been one of my concerns. [/quote]

Our experience with NCS/STA is that it is definitely like this for middle/high school (major divide between upper NW and for example, Silver Spring).  Some of it is just logistics.  The close-in kids
walk or bike to each others' houses.  The further out kids are completely out of the loop. 
My kid is in 8th grade and we're just off Mass Ave in NW and his/her closest 6 friends are all within biking/distance.  They see each other almost every day after school (outside-only while walking or on porches or biking or hanging out in a park).  The nicest kid in the world might 
live in Silver Spring but I don't have the bandwidth to drive my 8th grader across town every day at 3pm to they can go bike in a parking lot in Silver Spring.  Plus kids at these ages plan their own meet-ups.  So there is a major social divide between kids who live further out and those who do not. [/quote]

Not hanging out is one thing; thinking Silver Spring is “poor” or “ghetto” is quite another, and that type of thinking is a little more deeply rooted than not having a sleepover.[/quote]

One can see this attitude in the previous post where the poster assumes the only place to bike in Silver Spring is a parking lot. Apples don’t fall far. [/quote]

You are clearly looking for reasons to be offended.  My kids bike in parking lots in NW DC.  That's why I referenced taking them to a Silver Spring parking lot. Because it's what they do here.

But I agree 100%---no 150%--- that it would be really, really difficult to be a Silver Spring kid at these schools.  Both because of the snobbery (there is PLENTY of that--we live in AU Park and at times have been made to feel like we live on the "wrong side of the tracks") and the logistics.  Middle and high schoolers 
like to spontaneously hang out.  it's what they do.  If you take that ability away from your kid by sending them to a far-away school you are putting them at massive social disadvantage. 
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