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[quote=Anonymous]One caution on the parent community of these smaller private schools: There can be a lot of variability from cohort to cohort, or even class to class within the cohort.

In my child's private (which has been mentioned several times in this thread), the parent community [i]as a whole[/i] seems pretty down to earth and welcoming. But, for example, we had a year in which the families in my child's class seemed really status-obsessed. The room mom that year was an extremely wealthy SAHM who was very involved in volunteering and thus had quite a bit of influence over class parties and special activities, as well as mom activities that seemed exceptionally clique-y. The kids had numerous conversations in the classroom in which they bragged a lot (and, I suspect, lied a lot) about how wealthy their families were. By contrast, there was another year where there were numerous students in my child's class with parents who clearly were less wealthy, and an Army mom tried hard to make sure that activities were inclusive of families that could not afford to casually drop a bunch of money on them.[/quote]

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