Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:43     Subject: Re:Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
My husband turned to me in the car the other day and said that if we took the kids out of private school that we could live in a house that was $1M bigger/nicer. That really gave me pause. Yes we are choosing private, but is it really so wrong to prefer to go public and then have all that money to--gasp!--live in a nicer house, take nicer vacations, eat out all the time, etc? It made me feel like a fool for spending so much money just on school!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:38     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I find it funny that so many public school parents who claim that public school is so much better than private, spend so much tine trolling and posting to the Private/Independent School forum. Hop on over to the public school one!


Oh, don't worry, I read that one too. But this one is more entertaining.


+100
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:37     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:I find it funny that so many public school parents who claim that public school is so much better than private, spend so much tine trolling and posting to the Private/Independent School forum. Hop on over to the public school one!


Oh, don't worry, I read that one too. But this one is more entertaining.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:33     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.


Maybe because those people worked their butt off to get to where they are. Maybe because they were not handed everything to them on a silver platter. Maybe because they graduated from public schools and they expect their kids to do the same.


That's funny!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:32     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
If only our children read this thread. : /
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:32     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.


Maybe because those people worked their butt off to get to where they are. Maybe because they were not handed everything to them on a silver platter. Maybe because they graduated from public schools and they expect their kids to do the same.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:32     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
I find it funny that so many public school parents who claim that public school is so much better than private, spend so much tine trolling and posting to the Private/Independent School forum. Hop on over to the public school one!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:29     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:Wealthy teenage girls are much crueler and more sophisticated in how they bully. Good luck


ha! so true
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:27     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
I have applied to a couple private school for my kids for next year.

After reading some of these comments I have realized I rather give my kids a public school education. Why? because it brings them back down to reality.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:25     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
to each its own!

there I said it!
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 20:07     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:

Yes. I know that and I actually have kids in a "lesser" HS.

I just wanted the Pp to have to Google Watkins Mill, because clearly she is clueless if she does not think her kids are spoiled, I know they go to a W school, just wondering if it was Watkins Mill.


That is a marvelous suggestion, PP! Thank you! From now on, the W schools are Whitman, Walter Johnson, Wootton, Wheaton, and Watkins Mill.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 19:57     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.


Lol, this is us. HHI tends to vary between 750k to a little over a million. DH was strongly in favor of public because he believes our children would benefit from NOT being raised to think they are the center of the universe and that they are more likely to learn the value of perseverance in public. I had no strong thoughts on the matter. In fact, I find threads like this amusing because people get so worked up about it. We both went to public schools and turned out fine.


Lol.. The idea that your kids don't think they are the center of the universe. Where do they go Watkins Mill?


Not a PP but I did actually graduate from Watkins Mill and my kids are in private elementary. I really didn't enjoy my high school experience. I was very self motivated, took the hardest classes and have done very well in life. Some of my friends have done amazing things in life too but I believe it was despite the high school experience not because of it.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 19:53     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.


Lol, this is us. HHI tends to vary between 750k to a little over a million. DH was strongly in favor of public because he believes our children would benefit from NOT being raised to think they are the center of the universe and that they are more likely to learn the value of perseverance in public. I had no strong thoughts on the matter. In fact, I find threads like this amusing because people get so worked up about it. We both went to public schools and turned out fine.


Lol.. The idea that your kids don't think they are the center of the universe. Where do they go Watkins Mill?


True fact: there are real actual people who actually go to Watkins Mill HS! About 1,500 people, in fact. Have you ever been there?


Yes. I know that and I actually have kids in a "lesser" HS.

I just wanted the Pp to have to Google Watkins Mill, because clearly she is clueless if she does not think her kids are spoiled, I know they go to a W school, just wondering if it was Watkins Mill.
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 19:47     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the people who live in million dollar homes, drive luxury clothes, and drive luxury cars yet still send their kids to public school. There, I said it.


Lol, this is us. HHI tends to vary between 750k to a little over a million. DH was strongly in favor of public because he believes our children would benefit from NOT being raised to think they are the center of the universe and that they are more likely to learn the value of perseverance in public. I had no strong thoughts on the matter. In fact, I find threads like this amusing because people get so worked up about it. We both went to public schools and turned out fine.


Lol.. The idea that your kids don't think they are the center of the universe. Where do they go Watkins Mill?


True fact: there are real actual people who actually go to Watkins Mill HS! About 1,500 people, in fact. Have you ever been there?
Anonymous
Post 02/27/2014 19:44     Subject: Politically Incorrect Private School Thread What Do You Really Think?
Anonymous wrote:
What is wrong with U of MI?! It has some great programs. People forget that some state universities have top programs (better than Ivy).


You must have gone to a state university.

(^^^This is an insult. I learned this on the DCUM private school forum!)