Anonymous wrote:If you have a chance, you still are more likely to send your kid to TJ, Langley or McLean [i][u]than some other public school in the area. They don't guarantee a great life, but they help put most kids on the right path.

+1

I graduated from Mclean, attended Purdue U. Engineering school. I am working in IT and have my own company. I've hired and referred many former Mclean graduates just because they have the "Mclean" HS on the resume. Some didn't work out but most often do. I am not afraid to say that I am biased towards kids from Mclean HS. That's just the way life is. My kids attend Potomac school and I am sure working people who graduated from Potomac school will look at him favorably than let say someone from Wakefield. Nothing personal.

If you have a chance, you still are more likely to send your kid to TJ, Langley or McLean than some other public school in the area. They don't guarantee a great life, but they help put most kids on the right path.

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Anonymous wrote:I know someone who went to McLean and then Yale. She lives with her parents in McLean now. She is 40. The parents pay for car, bills etc... She obviously has no rent. She does not have a job....just gets small jobs here and there from time to time.

Is she ill, mentally or physically? or perhaps taking care of a parent?

no. honestly she is not. she has moved out a few times, but then quits her job and moves back home. her parents have always given her money. She has no motivation to make money. she doesn't believe that money is important and she believes that having a spiritual life is more important. That is what she would say. You couldn't pay me enough money to live at my parents' house, but she doesn't mind.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone who went to McLean and then Yale. She lives with her parents in McLean now. She is 40. The parents pay for car, bills etc... She obviously has no rent. She does not have a job....just gets small jobs here and there from time to time.

Is she ill, mentally or physically? or perhaps taking care of a parent?

ugh plenty....ive had so many babysitters who went to mclean/langley and couldnt find a job after college and now living in their parents home while babysit for a living

I know someone who went to McLean and then Yale. She lives with her parents in McLean now. She is 40. The parents pay for car, bills etc... She obviously has no rent. She does not have a job....just gets small jobs here and there from time to time.

Anonymous wrote:Umm not sure if you’ve heard but the job market isn’t exactly stellar. This situation is common to thebentire millennial generation.

We're near full employment -- the unemployment rate in DC for college grads is 2.5%. Don't kid yourself. Your kid just doesn't want to work.

I don't know any Mclean kids that don't have jobs after college. Parents in Mclean are usually well connected as are the kids after college. So it's easier to get a foot in the door. I would think that something is wrong with the kids if they can't hold a job (drugs, mental issues, etc.).

Here in North Arlington it is kind of funny to see how much money parents waste on kids who turn out to be community college material slackers. Growing up it is all about the best of everything yet the kids end up in retail and never end up going anywhere. This is true in McLean and the W schools in Maryland. Lots of the girls are just looking to marry into $$$ to be a SAHM - that would be a good prep course to take in HS.

I see this failure to launch with 90% of my great falls family. The parents came here poor immigrants, worked hard, succeeded. Their kids grew up handed everything, knowing they were rich, and had everything handed to them. The parents still bail them out, and they are all late 30s, early forties.

My take is that they didn’t learn how to work hard or To value and take advantage of opportunities be cause they didn’t have to.

I hope my kid comes home and lives in the basement and saves rent for a couple of years. What's the point of blowing $1500 a month on an apartment and eating out?

Being good at school doesn't mean you have the social skills necessary to be easily employable. You can be ackward, shy, and/or quirky and do very well in school. It doesn't mean anyone is going to want to hire you. My sister teaches high school and we just had a similar conversation. In the last 10 or so years she has seen a massive increase in the amount of accommodations many of her honors/AP students get. Extra time to turn in assignments, extra time on tests, parents get a weekly phone call or progress note sent home, agenda has to be signed off by teacher, student gets notes of lecture. Students and parents expect A's to be given and not earned. Students have tutors who help them complete assignments by oractically doing the assignments for them. She said there is no way many of these kids will be gainfully employed.

Anonymous wrote:Not surprising given the cost for a condo, townhouse, or single family home in this area. Move back home for a few years and save your money for a down payment, unexpected expenses, work wardrobe, car to get to work, etc. If given the opportunity, I would do it.

I wouldn't consider that "failing to launch" so much as establishing a financial cushion. It makes sense in this economy, especially if the person is under the age of 25. Now if they're still living there at 30...

Of course he doesn’t still live at home. We bought him a condo in the U St corridor. To be fair, at his salary (at a real job, in his major), it would have taken a looooong time to save for a downpayment.

Anonymous wrote:Ahahah, I was zoned to go to Langley (I went to Cooper) but went to private instead bc of the disgusting wealth at Langley (isn’t that ironic....)
It has been seriously impressive in the last 10+ years to see how many kids of CEOs have become drug addicts, OD’d, or have really no job/life. Certainly not everyone but way more than you would expect!

Am I supposed to take your comments seriously? You know that there are private schools in mclean as well, Madeira and Potomac to name a few. A lot more CEOs kids go there as well and they have much more disgusting wealth there than @Langley. Based on your assessments, there must be a lot more drug addicts, OD'd and no job/life at those schools.