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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks and maybe I'm a dope, but conversely...what?

Sincerely TIA[/quote]

And conversely that you are not committed to, or disinterested in, Catholic education.

You have to have some sensitivity to the history of the Irish in America to grasp this. Most are 1.) acutely aware of their Irishness and 2.) not completely unaware of the history of the Irish in the US. 
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Thanks for helping me to understand your thinking.

I don't think I can agree with the idea of the importance of where a person attends high school in the Metro Washington Region. To begin with it's a fairly large region in terms of employment opportunities. Then the percentage of students who graduate from private schools vis-a-vis public schools is probably small and even smaller yet if you isolate out the numbers exclusive to GP and Landon grads.

Washington, D.C. being the U.S. Capital makes it a natural magnet for people from all over the country who in all likelihood did not attend either public or private local high schools. Add to this the fact that not every graduate of local private high schools will even remain or ever return to the Metro Region after graduating from college further attenuates the influence of local high school graduates. These factors make it difficult to believe there is ultimately much adulthood professional and social successes attached to where individuals may or may not have attended high school.

However, if a person were to graduate from a highly rated public or private this would probably be beneficial when applying to elite universities which could in turn have a positive impact on acceptance rates to graduate schools, etc. etc. and eventually lead to lucrative employment opportunities. 
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All very logical.

But it shows a lack of familarity with how things work here .... at least in the world of the private schools for those for whom DC is their home and their family's home. DC is a very "Balkanized" place. And that someone not from here can't see that isn't surprising. You can't see these networks of lawyers and doctors accountants and people in real estate and construction because they aren't obvious.

These private schools are not academic "hot houses" that provide intensive academic programs that enable one to out-perform the public schoolers.  They are in may cases familoy traditions that go back a couple of generations.[/quote]

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