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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's hard to start Maret in high school, especially if you don't live close in. What can help, though, is playing school sports or doing the play/musical because those kids hang out after school, which helps with friendships, etc. My kids are lifers who don't play school sports because they have an outside sport, but they're fine socially because they've been at the school for 10 years and have well-established friendships. So I would only send my kids to a school like Maret for high school if s/he planned to be super active in the school community. Obviously, this all applies to normal times when kids are at school.[/quote]

It's the parents who are the problem.  Most consider themselves resist warriors and woke, but can't lift a finger to make sure their children have friends outside of Kalorama.  It's a real shame and frankly makes them hypocrites.  [/quote]

I'm not in Kalorama or at Maret but have an 8th grader and a high schooler at an upper NW private. I have zero input into my child's friends.  If they ask me for a ride, I'll provide it, although I work 8-5 and my husband works 8-7 so I'm limited by my work hours
and because I only have teenagers I no longer have a nanny or babysitter to delegate this to. 
99% of my kids' socialization is with classmates that they walk or bike themselves to see because they're teenagers and they run their own social lives and are independent. The more time they spend with these kids, the deeper their friendships grow.

I get it if you have an elementary school kid and parents are not including your kid.  But to guilt people because they are not inserting themselves into their teenagers' social life and leaving their jobs mid day to drive them to Silver Spring or Gaithersburg is just bat sh$%t crazy. 
YOU were the one who decided to put your kid in a far-away school.  It's insane to then complain that life is hard socially because your kid lives far away.  This situation wasn't foisted on you.  You chose it!! [/quote]

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