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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you suggesting that the Catholic community would ostracize a family simply because the family decided to send a son to Landon rather than Prep?[/quote]

"Ostracize" is a too strong a word. But attending these Catholic high schools is a big part of what keeps the group together.

There's one poster on here that wishes it weren't true.[/quote]
Ok, if "ostracize" is too strong, what word would you use? If I'm DC Irish-Catholic, and I choose to send my son to Landon rather than Prep, what will happen to me? Will other people I have known for years begin to treat me differently?[/quote]

Think of it this way. It's an opportunity for you and your son to develop a whole new set of friends.

These high schools are a way of binding the group together.

Do you understand just how [b]contentious the relationship between Prep and Landon[/b] is? They view one another quite negatively and that spills over to the parents too.[/quote]

Not really. My son graduated from Prep, his friend went to Landon (our next door neighbor), he had other friends go to St. John's, Gonzaga and WJ. It really juvenile to think they are not friends anymore over where they went to HS.

Kids are friends with neighbors and kids from sports team no matter where they go to school. Kids that play club teams make friends from all over.

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Not our experience in a neighborhood that has lot of Prep, Gonzaga, Landon and Whitman boys. They are still cordial to one another, but they infrequently see one another and rarely socialize. [/quote]

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