Anonymous wrote:A lot of the pro-school posters haven’t attended the schools that long and they’re still riding high off the fact that they’ve been admitted. I’ve been rah-rah when my kids start a school, but after years of attending the school, sometimes you become disenchanted.

+1 -- Though I wouldn't say we're disenchanted; just more realistic. It happens IRL too. I know one family, new to our school, where the mom spent years trying to engage me in conversation about all the amazing, awesome, wonderful things she'd heard about the school. Whenever I observed that the school, while quite good in many ways, is not perfect, she would get this disappointed and even suspicious look on her face. Now that her kids have been there a couple of months, the bloom's off the rose, and she's constantly bitching and moaning in the most tiresome way.

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The real private school parents write on this forum when they are mad about something, or when something wonderful happens. The rest are just pretenders. If you go to the school you can tell they have never been there. Just wannabes.

Wait, what? I know about the real rich people (the ones where you can't tell that they're rich) and the fake rich people (the ones who spend a lot of money so that you think they're rich, except actually they're not). But now there are also real private school parents and fake private school parents? How can I tell them apart?

Anonymous wrote:There is so much hate because of envy. Parents and children at Sidwell, STA, GDS etc arent on here spewing hate. Its the people that didnt get in these schools that try to tear them down to make themselves feel better. To convince themselves it OK they arent part of the club.

Very few people apply out of these schools once they are in. There are exceptions, but very few. Parents and children are happy in these schools and the envious and jealous hate that fact. It helps them feel better to try to tear these people and instituitons down.

Truth hurts - but its mostly about trying to make themselves feel better and good about themselves.

The real private school parents write on this forum when they are mad about something, or when something wonderful happens. The rest are just pretenders. If you go to the school you can tell they have never been there. Just wannabes.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is some truth in what was said. I don't know if it is jealousy or envy but I will add my perspective. My kid goes to one of the schools that is constantly trashed on this site and our experience has been completely different than most of the stereotypes that are repeated here. This has led me to conclude that most of the haters of this particular school actually know very little about it.

My own experience is the same as the underlined part. The DCUM stories about my kids' school are rarely accurate.

I don't know people post false info. It's probably a wide variety of reasons. Some might be envious, others might be retaliating because of a rejection, others might just be passing along rumors they've heard, others might be steeling themselves for the rough application process, others might be from rival schools and think it's fun to trash the competition, and others might be pure trolls with no agenda other than causing trouble.

Remember what season this is....admissions! There are people here who are so devious that they will do anything to discourage people from even considering applying. That just increases the odds for their snowflake who probably won't even get in because of their devious parent(s).

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Anonymous wrote:There is so much hate because of envy. Parents and children at Sidwell, STA, GDS etc arent on here spewing hate. Its the people that didnt get in these schools that try to tear them down to make themselves feel better. To convince themselves it OK they arent part of the club.

Very few people apply out of these schools once they are in. There are exceptions, but very few. Parents and children are happy in these schools and the envious and jealous hate that fact. It helps them feel better to try to tear these people and instituitons down.

Truth hurts - but its mostly about trying to make themselves feel better and good about themselves.

Oh my. And where does your snowflake attend school, may we ask? Because your post sets a new standard, or should I say it lowers the bar, for smugness and hate.

I think there is some truth in what was said. I don't know if it is jealousy or envy but I will add my perspective. My kid goes to one of the schools that is constantly trashed on this site and our experience has been completely different than most of the stereotypes that are repeated here. This has led me to conclude that most of the haters of this particular school actually know very little about it.

+1 I do not think this poster is way off base. Their tone is overstated, but hard to know.

A lot of the pro-school posters haven’t attended the schools that long and they’re still riding high off the fact that they’ve been admitted. I’ve been rah-rah when my kids start a school, but after years of attending the school, sometimes you become disenchanted.

Anonymous wrote:I think there is some truth in what was said. I don't know if it is jealousy or envy but I will add my perspective. My kid goes to one of the schools that is constantly trashed on this site and our experience has been completely different than most of the stereotypes that are repeated here. This has led me to conclude that most of the haters of this particular school actually know very little about it.

My own experience is the same as the underlined part. The DCUM stories about my kids' school are rarely accurate.

I don't know people post false info. It's probably a wide variety of reasons. Some might be envious, others might be retaliating because of a rejection, others might just be passing along rumors they've heard, others might be steeling themselves for the rough application process, others might be from rival schools and think it's fun to trash the competition, and others might be pure trolls with no agenda other than causing trouble.

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Anonymous wrote:There is so much hate because of envy. Parents and children at Sidwell, STA, GDS etc arent on here spewing hate. Its the people that didnt get in these schools that try to tear them down to make themselves feel better. To convince themselves it OK they arent part of the club.

Very few people apply out of these schools once they are in. There are exceptions, but very few. Parents and children are happy in these schools and the envious and jealous hate that fact. It helps them feel better to try to tear these people and instituitons down.

Truth hurts - but its mostly about trying to make themselves feel better and good about themselves.

Oh my. And where does your snowflake attend school, may we ask? Because your post sets a new standard, or should I say it lowers the bar, for smugness and hate.

I think there is some truth in what was said. I don't know if it is jealousy or envy but I will add my perspective. My kid goes to one of the schools that is constantly trashed on this site and our experience has been completely different than most of the stereotypes that are repeated here. This has led me to conclude that most of the haters of this particular school actually know very little about it.

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Anonymous wrote:OP Here: For those of you that were constructive, thanks for the feedback. For those that were rude, I guess I get it now ..I wasn't even asking about a particular school and was subjected to insults. So some folks are just angry, I guess. So I have read through as much as I can on this forum and from the postings it is clear that ...
StA's is overprivileged
Sidwell full of perverts
Landon is for felons
Maret is only for DC residents
Bullis is not academic
Sheeesh! I guess I will go back to the drawing board and stick with my visits and my gut. Or, if anyone has anything constructive to say about these, I am all ears.

If you are making your decisions based on what you read in DCUM, then you are a welcomed addition to its family, the crazy side of the family.

OP. you are a welcome addition to the DCUM family. You obviously like stirring the pot amd talking out of your a$$. Welcome!

Anonymous wrote:WHY SO MANY CAPITAL LETTERS?

SERIOUSLY!

For an OP who is claiming to be turned off by all the hatred, you'd think s/he wouldn't yell at strangers. T

Anonymous wrote:Sorry for my grammar errors. I am typing quickly on the phone while managing homework.

Sure you are. I assume you must be a fake!

Sorry for my grammar errors. I am typing quickly on the phone while managing homework.

PP- I agree with you. My kid doesn't attend an elite private, but there are certain give aways when reading the forums to identify the fakers. Honestly, I can't believe that parents from elite schools have poor grammar so when I see a posting with poor grammar, I assume its fake.

It isn't the snark that's entertaining, it's people who are completely clueless. For example, We make 220k per year and never in a million years would I ask about FA. I am baffled by people who make much more than I do and complain here on the forums. If you make 350k, I do get it that there is a big opportunity cost there of spending 70k of aftertax money on school but to claim that you are barely making it ia ridiculous. In that case you have a spending problem not an earnings problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Are we really going to convert this thread into a spit-fight about which forum is meaner? Does it really matter which one is meaner?

Bottom line: If you make snarky jerk comments, please stop.

If we're here for entertainment, it's valid to ask which provides the better entertainment.

It seems to me a big problem is that while some of you post snark here for entertainment, other of us are actually trying to exchange useful information. Maybe we should create a separate education forum for people who squabble for entertainment.

It's actually not the snark that I find entertaining, it's the serious posts. I had no idea that people really apparently think like the stuff that gets posted..