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Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Give me a break. Yep it's DC that causes competition. NO family in NYC or Chicago or SF is grooming its kids for an ivy. Nope. None at all. Just those awful DC families.

Newsflash -- any place where you have well educated parents with money and with some kind of educational pedigree -- you will get competition for the top schools. That's where they went, that's where they want their kids to go. So the same attitudes exist in NYC - including the NYC area suburbs like Westchester, Long Island, NJ, CT; Chicago; SF; Silicon Valley; etc.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Seriously? One thing I know for sure is that the DC-area residents bear very little responsibility for the rise Donald Trump.

Where did he go to school? And Secretary Clinton? There is a reason some employers won't even interview Ivy grads.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I guess it depends on how much you have had to put up with. Lots of parents have spent their kids elementary school years insisting that their snowflakes are such special outliners that they can't possibly be educated in the same classroom as the ordinary 115 IQ kids (in certain FCPS areas) It's annoying ... and then guess what? Turns out their special snowflakes go to large State U with the other kids anyway!

+100
I've seen this happen time after time with my kids' classmates. With the exception of a very few, they all wind up at the same state universities, regardless of what path they took to get there (or how much money was spent along the way).

Fallacy. There's a wide gap in talent at state schools. The top kids will be doctors and lawyers and execs... the bottom kids flunk out or major in a worthless social science. Everyone isn't on some equal playing field because they're at the same college.

The more you post, the more we laugh. Keep it up!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

I'm not sure who you are, or why you're trying to turn this thread into something political (??), but let me tell you something. I'm a DC-area native. I've lived elsewhere on and off, including overseas, but came back here because it's my home. The people you're referring to, who are truly "awful," are NOT originally from this area. No, they come from other places and are sure they've "arrived" because they landed a job in DC or thereabouts.

The fact is, most of these uber-ambitious parents you speak of are transplants who feel they've got something to prove now that they're out of their small hometowns. Those of us who grew up here are down-to-earth and normal and *don't* groom our kids. So please stop claiming that elitist morons like the OP are representative of those of us who were born and raised here, by loving, kind, hard-working, and compassionate people. They're not.

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I guess it depends on how much you have had to put up with. Lots of parents have spent their kids elementary school years insisting that their snowflakes are such special outliners that they can't possibly be educated in the same classroom as the ordinary 115 IQ kids (in certain FCPS areas) It's annoying ... and then guess what? Turns out their special snowflakes go to large State U with the other kids anyway!

+100
I've seen this happen time after time with my kids' classmates. With the exception of a very few, they all wind up at the same state universities, regardless of what path they took to get there (or how much money was spent along the way).

Fallacy. There's a wide gap in talent at state schools. The top kids will be doctors and lawyers and execs... the bottom kids flunk out or major in a worthless social science. Everyone isn't on some equal playing field because they're at the same college.

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Seriously? One thing I know for sure is that the DC-area residents bear very little responsibility for the rise Donald Trump.

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Anonymous wrote:This thread actually clarifies a lot about DC for me. It has the reputation for being a city full of really awful people. I've defended that more times than I can remember by telling people that it not that people from DC are awful. They are just busy and stressed because it's a tough place to live and work.

I was wrong. You people suck. I'm thankful I didn't raised my kids anywhere near DC. They were babies and preschoolers the first time. When we moved back they were grown. Seriously, go back and read this thread. If you are "grooming" your kids to be anything other than kind, loving, hard-working, compassionate people committed to finding their own path - you fail as a parent. If you are pushing them towards the college of your dreams, please seek therapy. I see the result in real life in DC and here on dcum and it's really, really ugly.

THIS is why we are choosing between a monster and a criminal for POTUS.

Anonymous wrote:My niece went to average U. She's a delightful person with a happy marriage and two beautiful kids. My nephew went to Harvard. He's a total jerk, though he's making millions in investment banking. He never visits his family and is completely obsessed with status (who makes his suits, shoes, his fancy BMW, his equally dismissive, breast enhanced GF).
You can have him.
By the way, didn't that guy who murdered his father go to Princeton, belong to Maidstone? Lots of them are still living off family in their 30s.