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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think I know where you are coming from on this, and in an ideal world, I'd like to find a school like you grew up in too.  Sadly, however, I don't think they exist anymore.  Or very few and far between.  And not just few and far between in the DC metro, but across the US. I think the growing income disparity over the last few decades has really changed this country (and not for the better).

That said, I live in Chevy Chase, and my kids are in the BCC cluster schools.  I do not pretend to describe this environment as "down-to-earth" BUT I do feel like there is functional diversity in the schools (functional meaning kids are really mixing it up in their classes/activities/etc with kids from different backgrounds, including those who don't have law firm partners as parents).  Truth be told, there are some aspects to living in a bubble that I'm in favor of (quality of education and education expectations).  I am struggling with how to bring up my kids so that they are down-to-earth (which is how people describe me).  In general we're pretty frugal but we enjoy extras that are totally beyond the reach of a family on an average income (our home, vacations, travel, sheer comfort of not living paycheck to paycheck).

We do talk about what it means to have more and less money.  I want my kids eyes opened.  Although I grew up in an equally affluent community, my parents finances were a disaster due to pretty traumatic job loss (meaning: losing everything including family home).  I always "passed" for UMC and hid the financial troubles from others.  In college (SLAC) I remember many very insensitive comments about people who didn't pay on time or weren't pulling their weight or so on - no one realized that my family fell in that bucket.  I don't want my kids to be so oblivious that they're the ones making these insensitive comments.  These college aquaintances weren't bad people.  In fact, they were really smart achievers who just had no clue of life outside of the bubble.
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