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Anonymous wrote:Why, when it comes to bullying and mean girls and drugs, all HS students are the same but when it comes to being super bright, personable, refined, polished, sophisticated and so super special, private students are so much better?

Because they are both of these things. Private kids do tend to excel in certain areas - more polished. I say this as a public school kid that has very wealthy private school kids now and yes there is a difference. Plus public schools have violence and other things that privates do not.

Private kids are more polished and tend to present in a different way not always but I can easily spot private and public kids. It is tb e way they carry themselves and speak to adults. Why are you obsessed with private school forum of your kids are not at privates?

Sigh.

You do understand that parents can and do have children at both public and private schools? And the DCUM privates forum is not the exclusive environment you would like it to be?

So tired of so many private parents (including some at my kids’ school) thinking their kids are better because they have money.

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Anonymous wrote:Why, when it comes to bullying and mean girls and drugs, all HS students are the same but when it comes to being super bright, personable, refined, polished, sophisticated and so super special, private students are so much better?

Because they are both of these things. Private kids do tend to excel in certain areas - more polished. I say this as a public school kid that has very wealthy private school kids now and yes there is a difference. Plus public schools have violence and other things that privates do not.

Private kids are more polished and tend to present in a different way not always but I can easily spot private and public kids. It is tb e way they carry themselves and speak to adults. Why are you obsessed with private school forum of your kids are not at privates?

Anonymous wrote:Why, when it comes to bullying and mean girls and drugs, all HS students are the same but when it comes to being super bright, personable, refined, polished, sophisticated and so super special, private students are so much better?

Because they are both of these things. Private kids do tend to excel in certain areas - more polished. I say this as a public school kid that has very wealthy private school kids now and yes there is a difference. Plus public schools have violence and other things that privates do not.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has a "vaping shed" in the shed by the soccer field. All the kids know about it, school does nothing as far as we can tell

Is this the school that had an overdose /death last year? So sad. And they do do something- they charge a lot of money for the shed.

Why don't they just take the shed down?

New poster. I have seen kids (although just two kids on one occasion) sitting and vaping right out in the open by the tennis courts there. I actually thought maybe it was allowed and was surprised by that.

Anonymous wrote:I think it was more likely they were snorting somebody's Adderrall rather than cocaine.

Yep. That's pretty rampant. I'd worry more abt coke - street drugs are now commonly cut with fentanyl.

And OP - All the schools have problems with drugs - it's a moving target. But I've never heard of a school that doesn't let staff in the bathrooms. That is crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Private school students have more money so there are usually a lot of drugs.

As a former private school lifer OP, this is not surprising to me. I was a poor scholarship nerd, so wasn't offered free drugs. I would not send my kids to most private high schools for this reason alone.

You obviously have not spent time at our public high school.

+100

The publics are in crisis near us. Teachers fleeing and crime and violence and drug use in school up. My kids (Jr and Freshmen) haven't experienced any of this at their private Catholic high school. In fact, it was a big reason we moved them out of public school after 8th grade. Obviously, it will vary where you live.

There was an overdose at my daughter's Catholic high school just a few weeks ago. Drugs are everywhere.

Kids were snorting coke in the bathroom at my wealthy public school in the '90s. When they offered it to me I laughed and said really you make me feel like I'm in a lame after school special. I washed my hands and left. Two of those girls fell off the radar the other 3 ended up super successful. I did nothing to report them.

If my kid told me about kids doing drugs. I would share my story with her and get her feedback, then go from there. My kid is super smart and has been raised to make good decisions. I trust she'll do the right thing, because I did. Drugs are everywhere.

Are any of your kids' schools educating students about the dangers of fentanyl? It's important that that conversations take place at both school and at home. I'm advocating for this at our private school and it would be good to know of other schools in DC area working to raise student awareness of fentanyl.

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Anonymous wrote:Private school students have more money so there are usually a lot of drugs.

As a former private school lifer OP, this is not surprising to me. I was a poor scholarship nerd, so wasn't offered free drugs. I would not send my kids to most private high schools for this reason alone.

You obviously have not spent time at our public high school.

+100

The publics are in crisis near us. Teachers fleeing and crime and violence and drug use in school up. My kids (Jr and Freshmen) haven't experienced any of this at their private Catholic high school. In fact, it was a big reason we moved them out of public school after 8th grade. Obviously, it will vary where you live.

Anonymous wrote:Why, when it comes to bullying and mean girls and drugs, all HS students are the same but when it comes to being super bright, personable, refined, polished, sophisticated and so super special, private students are so much better?

Because folks need to believe the cost of private grants them a protective bubble from the negative realities of the world. They also feel that for the money it gives them more control. Something usually happens to bring that view crashing down.

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Anonymous wrote:I appreciate how OP threw AHC under the bus but somehow forgot to mention where her DD goes to school. Nice.

What is AHC?

Academy of the Holy Cross
Girls Catholic HS, Kensington/N Bethesda MD

Anonymous wrote:I appreciate how OP threw AHC under the bus but somehow forgot to mention where her DD goes to school. Nice.

What is AHC?

Anonymous wrote:Private school students have more money so there are usually a lot of drugs.

As a former private school lifer OP, this is not surprising to me. I was a poor scholarship nerd, so wasn't offered free drugs. I would not send my kids to most private high schools for this reason alone.

This was my experience but I grew up somewhere with much more socioeconomic diversity. The private school kids usually has the better drugs and the public school kids just had weed.

OP is this at SSSAS?

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell has a "vaping shed" in the shed by the soccer field. All the kids know about it, school does nothing as far as we can tell

St Andrew's has parents that allow their kids and their friends to drinks at their house, but they pretend it doesn't happen.

Every school has these parents and every HSer gets invited to a sleepover that's actually a coed house party.