Anonymous wrote:I guess OP's point is that s/he is slumming it now despite her "Big 3" experience in the formative years. I mean, Silver Spring AND public school - wow! I bet OP shops at Giant, too.

Yes, the Silver Spring part is key to making her a fascinating figure.

Maybe she even shops at Snider's.

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Anonymous wrote:I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.
Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

I wonder if you realize what a gigantic douchebag this post makes you sound like?

Funny, I thought the douchebag part of that post was this:

(live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private)

We weren't ever considering private - long before moving to Potomac we'd decided on public. But, whatever.

You are still missing the point (despite your Ivy background etc.). There are great publics all over MoCo, not just in Potomac. But in your mind, Potomac (as opposed to other area) schools are per se great.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.
Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

I wonder if you realize what a gigantic douchebag this post makes you sound like?

Funny, I thought the douchebag part of that post was this:

(live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private)

I thought the gratuitous Ivy reference was the douchiest part, but I see your point.

I guess OP's point is that s/he is slumming it now despite her "Big 3" experience in the formative years. I mean, Silver Spring AND public school - wow! I bet OP shops at Giant, too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.
Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

I wonder if you realize what a gigantic douchebag this post makes you sound like?

Funny, I thought the douchebag part of that post was this:

(live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private)

We weren't ever considering private - long before moving to Potomac we'd decided on public. But, whatever.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.
Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

I wonder if you realize what a gigantic douchebag this post makes you sound like?

Funny, I thought the douchebag part of that post was this:

(live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.
Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

I wonder if you realize what a gigantic douchebag this post makes you sound like?

That's how I know most of the friends I made as adults. You're missing the point. I don't work in a fancy or high paying industry, but I obviously made a lot of my post- high- school friends in college. The argument could then be mad that those were the most successful students from their high schools. Clearer?

Anonymous wrote:I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.
Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

I wonder if you realize what a gigantic douchebag this post makes you sound like?

Are you so starved for attention at home that you feel compelled to post yet another of these absurd "ask me anything" threads?

Do your kids go to a Magnet school?

Anonymous wrote:go.

Can't afford it, I take it?

I did too (live in Potomac so great public, but never considered private). The education just isn't significantly better, period. The parents are a nightmare. My friends who went to public (granted they are self selected from my Ivy and work contacts) are just as smart and successful as my Big 3 friends.

Those schools are status symbols for the parents. Bottom line. It wasn't that way back in the 80's when I went, but it absolutely is now.

Me too!

Anonymous wrote:Are you glad that you had a good k-12 or would you prefer your parents saving the tuition and buying you a house later on?

As we sit here thinking about private schools, I have to admit that's the thing we keep coming back to. We can't afford to do both. However, we're in DCPS and so it's play the lottery or do the private thing.

Who cares? No one has ever asked me in a caring way where I went to elementary school or high school except in general conversation. We went to public schools. Our neighbors went to fancy private schools. They are doing no better than we are doing.