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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ OP, I typed a long response to your post, which I find so misguided in so many ways.  Instead, I decided to just point out your most glaring misconception. We have had kids in both public and in a private you refer to as a big three (while at the same time denigrating others for using that term).  There are difficult/anxious/obnoxious parents in both settings.  The two most intense, helicoptering parents (by a lot!) that I know are parents in our W cluster (another DCUM term that should equally offend you).  Similarly , there are great parents in both settings.  You describe private school parents as a monolith, which is no more true than to say that all public school parents are like you.  It’s disappointing that an adult doesn’t know better, because then who is teaching kids to refrain from such generalizations and judgments?
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OP here.  Obviously I recognize that parents in either setting aren’t a monolith, although I’d suggest that using a so-called “W” school as an example of a typical public school is laughable.

What jumps out at me on this forum is that, however broadly or narrowly one defines the Big 3, the student population there is a tiny fraction of high school students in the DMV.  Every Big 3 senior class combined is probably smaller than a single class at a typical DMV public high school.  Yet, self-identifying Big 3 parents appear to pipe in in every single thread.  It happens frequently enough to allow one to generalize about the parent population with some degree of confidence, wouldn’t you say?[/quote]

Because our college counseling is not helpful, people are too polite to have these conversations in person, so posting online anonymously is the only place we can get some sort of honest feedback.  AND as has been said before - we cannot just post the GPA alone without context because it is apples and oranges to other schools.[/quote]

Why are you paying tens of thousands of dollars a year for a school that isn’t helpful?[/quote]

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