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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's a W school? White?

The W schools are the high schools whose names start with W (Watkins Mill, Wheaton, Whitman, and Wootton) and the middle schools and elementary schools in those high school clusters.

Nope let me correct you. They do not include Wheaton and Watkins Mill. Its Walter Johnson, Winston "Churchill", Wootton, and Whitman.

PP feels the need to post everywhere on DCUM the hyperliteral "definition" of W school as including Watkins Mill and Wheaton. I think his/her agenda is to try to end the use of the nickname for the high-SES schools. One shortcoming to the "W school" shorthand is that it leaves out BCC, which really should be included.

it happens at every single school, you are upset because you are not part of it YET. you will be one soon. They will get you and drag you in.

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Anonymous wrote:typical bell curve of personalities in our bethesda neighborhood.

saw the same distribution in Manhattan, Milwaukee, and Philly when we lived there too.

never needed to call anyone snotty though! it's actually kind of a self-defining post OP.

Agree. My DC is at a W school and I find people to be very friendly. It was surprisingly easy to meet people despite my DC being a 9th grader. DC moved from a private school where people were friendly but perhaps a bit cliqueish.

Totally agreed. I encountered snobby people when I grew up in a typical midwestern middle-class suburb, and plenty of normal people. People are different everywhere. I think people move to Potomac/Bethesda/Chevy Chase/etc. and expect to meet nothing but Biffs and Buffys and their impression of the place gets colored by that expectation. We moved to Bethesda from a very egalitarian and diverse neighborhood in DC, and love our new neighbors and neighborhood. There may be some pretentious and unfriendly people, but guess what? I ignore them, and have plenty of normal, down-to-earth friends. My kids encounter entitled and spoiled kids, but that happens everywhere too...they have no problem finding kind and normal friends to hang with. OP may eventually meet some too, if she drops the attitude that her new neighborhood is full of snobs.

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Anonymous wrote:My wife says it's this way in Arlington.

I really think it's a woman thing. Men aren't this neurotic.

I also promise you this: You're thinking about them a whole lot more than than they think about you (which is not at all). It is literally all in your head. Stop being so silly.

+1. This is why women truly do need men, more than fish need bicycles.

Women need men because there are some women who are nasty to other women?

Anonymous wrote:My wife says it's this way in Arlington.

I really think it's a woman thing. Men aren't this neurotic.

I also promise you this: You're thinking about them a whole lot more than than they think about you (which is not at all). It is literally all in your head. Stop being so silly.

+1. This is why women truly do need men, more than fish need bicycles.

Anonymous wrote:typical bell curve of personalities in our bethesda neighborhood.

saw the same distribution in Manhattan, Milwaukee, and Philly when we lived there too.

never needed to call anyone snotty though! it's actually kind of a self-defining post OP.

Agree. My DC is at a W school and I find people to be very friendly. It was surprisingly easy to meet people despite my DC being a 9th grader. DC moved from a private school where people were friendly but perhaps a bit cliqueish.

I went to a top private in the area where a lot of very wealthy and famous people send their kids and I actually find it more striking at our W public school. The parents are actually very nice people but there are definitely very upscale cars, $500 purses, and since there are so many parents who can afford this type of lifestyle they tend to be friends.

Anonymous wrote:You mean they are snotty even though their kids go to PUBLIC schools? That truly is absurd.

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Anonymous wrote:What's a W school? White?

The W schools are the high schools whose names start with W (Watkins Mill, Wheaton, Whitman, and Wootton) and the middle schools and elementary schools in those high school clusters.

Nope let me correct you. They do not include Wheaton and Watkins Mill. Its Walter Johnson, Winston "Churchill", Wootton, and Whitman.

Anonymous wrote:typical bell curve of personalities in our bethesda neighborhood.

saw the same distribution in Manhattan, Milwaukee, and Philly when we lived there too.

never needed to call anyone snotty though! it's actually kind of a self-defining post OP.

That is one distorted view... Philly probably it impossible for you to recognize anything normal.

Anonymous wrote:If you can afford a W district, you can afford to live in Takoma Park, where life is way better for chill people. As long as you're not, you know, a Republican.

So funny that people are so NOT self aware. You realize how uptight Takoma Park is right? Hippies on steroids, they protest hospitals that use epidurals.

Anonymous wrote:DC is in a W school and while the kids are basically lovely (still in elementary), I find some of the moms so competitive, snooty and entitled. They are cliquish, gossipy and I just do not like the vibe, or feel like I fit in (or that I want to). Feels like JHS all over again! Is it better elsewhere?

OP, one big difference between junior high school and now is that now, if you don't like them, you don't have to hang out with them. Find other people to hang out with, whom you do like.

Anonymous wrote:What's a W school? White?

The W schools are the high schools whose names start with W (Watkins Mill, Wheaton, Whitman, and Wootton) and the middle schools and elementary schools in those high school clusters.

I hear you! DD is at a W-cluster middle school and those parents are awful -- snotty, entitled, fake ... ugh.

If you can afford a W district, you can afford to live in Takoma Park, where life is way better for chill people. As long as you're not, you know, a Republican.

What's a W school? White?