Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 08:52     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m a private school parent and find a lot of the posters to meet OP’s description…


Great. I went to public school in a wealthy NYC suburb and knew plenty of parents who were the exact same way.


+1. Go to the public school threads and you'll see the exact same thing.


+1

Private school families are not as special as they think they are.





This entire thread is about how private school families are apparently awful.

I point out that public school families can be awful too.

Your response is, “ha! You’re not as special as you think.”

I’m not sure you’re following this conversation.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 08:46     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Snow days off work/school = bored and maladjusted people looking for something to make them feel alive.

...and i notice upticks in malevolence when there is no school. It feels like there are some 13 year olds with bad attitudes and an internet connection sock puppeting some of these threads.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 08:07     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m a private school parent and find a lot of the posters to meet OP’s description…


Great. I went to public school in a wealthy NYC suburb and knew plenty of parents who were the exact same way.


+1. Go to the public school threads and you'll see the exact same thing.


+1

Private school families are not as special as they think they are.



Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 07:46     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m a private school parent and find a lot of the posters to meet OP’s description…


Great. I went to public school in a wealthy NYC suburb and knew plenty of parents who were the exact same way.


+1. Go to the public school threads and you'll see the exact same thing.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2026 01:21     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are they representative of your elite private school parents? Using their kids for social climbing? Fixers on the Ivies? Extremely entitled and yet lacking of a worldly view.


I understand where you are coming from. And it’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.


Totally brilliant use of Ferris. You win the internet today.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 21:40     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have kids in both private and public and the public school parents are just as wealthy if not more but less into focusing on vapid status.


LOL

— someone who went to Chappaqua public schools and watched as kids got Range Rovers for their 16th birthdays and heard moms talk openly about their daughters needing to lose weight


I grew up near Chappaqua and my high school best friend went to public school there. All I remember him talking about was how everyone had heated driveways and I thought that was so cool. Now in adulthood you couldn’t pay me to live there.


PP here.

Me either.

When we moved to the DC area, we were driving through Potomac and it reminded me so much of Chappaqua that I told my husband there was no way I could live there.

And yet these Potomac/Bethesda public school parents think they’re so much more righteous and less stuck-up than private school parents. It’s hilarious.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:55     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I have kids in both private and public and the public school parents are just as wealthy if not more but less into focusing on vapid status.


LOL

— someone who went to Chappaqua public schools and watched as kids got Range Rovers for their 16th birthdays and heard moms talk openly about their daughters needing to lose weight


I grew up near Chappaqua and my high school best friend went to public school there. All I remember him talking about was how everyone had heated driveways and I thought that was so cool. Now in adulthood you couldn’t pay me to live there.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:54     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:Are they representative of your elite private school parents? Using their kids for social climbing? Fixers on the Ivies? Extremely entitled and yet lacking of a worldly view.


I understand where you are coming from. And it’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 19:51     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:If this is a spin off of the tuition thread, I think there are a lot of posters there who found that discussion from Recent Topics and have nothing good to say about private schools. So you can imagine that parents who are in this forum because they have already chosen private school are going to be knives out in response to these kinds of posts. I wouldn’t take a thread that has gotten so detailed very seriously.


The tuition thread was totally reasonable though. $60k is a crazy number.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 18:42     Subject: So many disgusting posters
If this is a spin off of the tuition thread, I think there are a lot of posters there who found that discussion from Recent Topics and have nothing good to say about private schools. So you can imagine that parents who are in this forum because they have already chosen private school are going to be knives out in response to these kinds of posts. I wouldn’t take a thread that has gotten so detailed very seriously.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 17:32     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The majority of people who send their kids to private are not weathly.

This is why Catholic schools do so well.

My peers are the 1% of this country and we have a huge mix of types of schools from public to boarding.

There are bad eggs everywhere

How do catholic schools do so well?


There are a lot of Catholics.

Sending their kids to a Catholic school is important to them. It reinforces the Faith and it surrounds them with peers who come from families with similar histories and values.

Many have done well enough to send them to private schools, even though for some it’s a financial stretch.

The schools offer solid educations and they offer things these families are interested in like top flight sports programs for both participants and fans. But at the same time they are generally more budget friendly that secular privates.


as a result, less snobbish parents, i supppose.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 17:29     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The majority of people who send their kids to private are not weathly.

This is why Catholic schools do so well.

My peers are the 1% of this country and we have a huge mix of types of schools from public to boarding.

There are bad eggs everywhere

How do catholic schools do so well?


There are a lot of Catholics.

Sending their kids to a Catholic school is important to them. It reinforces the Faith and it surrounds them with peers who come from families with similar histories and values.

Many have done well enough to send them to private schools, even though for some it’s a financial stretch.

The schools offer solid educations and they offer things these families are interested in like top flight sports programs for both participants and fans. But at the same time they are generally more budget friendly that secular privates.
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 17:14     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:The majority of people who send their kids to private are not weathly.

This is why Catholic schools do so well.

My peers are the 1% of this country and we have a huge mix of types of schools from public to boarding.

There are bad eggs everywhere

How do catholic schools do so well?
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 17:11     Subject: So many disgusting posters
The majority of people who send their kids to private are not weathly.

This is why Catholic schools do so well.

My peers are the 1% of this country and we have a huge mix of types of schools from public to boarding.

There are bad eggs everywhere
Anonymous
Post 01/30/2026 16:44     Subject: So many disgusting posters
Anonymous wrote:newsflash - i don't live in DC and can comment here. I also can say stupid ****. Take that for what it's worth.


It is not just about what they say. I do think it reflects their priority in life: $$, power, and hunger for status, not very different from the president and republican party.