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[quote=Anonymous]I mean I don't think it's about money but the kind of person you are.

I grew up the only kid of millionaires - immigrant parents who worked as entrepreneurs.  I went to private (not in DC) for HS and I saw kids who had more, same and less money than us.  It never changed who my family or who I was - my best friends never had as much money as we did.  In fact, my best friends even today aren't as well off but it just doesn't matter.  Even today, most of my kids' friends have less than us but that doesn't mean we don't love them and we don't flaunt that we were fortunate enough to travel 1/2 the summer around the world for example.

I never judge and I teach my kids never to look at wealth to judge anyone.  I can talk to a taxi/uber driver as easily as a CFO - it's just people.  Folks get intimidated on their own.  Good folks, real people - those who you'd want to be friends with or care about what they think - it's never going to be because of how wealthy you are.  The ones that do aren't the ones you'd want in your life anyway.  By the same token, I know plenty of not very wealthy people who are judgmental, mean and rude.  They aren't super rich but let me tell you - they are worse than some mega rich ones!!  It takes all kinds.

Be comfortable and confident in yourself - go to whatever school you want.  It's nonsense to worry about a school because there may be people with too much money there - that's life!  There's people of all kinds everywhere.  Teach your kids to have the confidence to be proud of who they are - money or no money.[/quote]

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