Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Are kids really announcing where they are going to HS on instagram?

I'm embarrassed for him. Real life is going to set it hard for him.

OK Public School Dad. Lots of the DC and MD boys from Elite down to HoCo B will be - and should be - proud of where their hard work was able to get them admitted. Some of these schools admit less than 20% for 9th grade, some admit *double digits* of new students, only 1/3 or 1/2 of whom even play lax. In Maryland particularly, the school affiliation tracks with the boys through their early careers....if not longer.

If your son managed to rock a 3.8 through 8th grade and play 3 sports and survive the admissions interviews and write a coherent essay, then I'm proud of him, even if he costs my son a spot. Sure, a few sons-of-donors and other kids will squeak in, but generally it's a rare piece of modern meritocracy.

If you land in a good HS (including publics with an admissions process), good job parents and good job kid.
Haaaa whatever

You boys need a serious amount of validation, wow.

BOTC logic: parade out every 12 year old youth team for every random tournament victory that will be forgotten just months from now, and absolutely beat each tourney victory into the ground............. but absolutely don't talk positively about kids succeeding academically, which is an absolute essential for "the next level" of lacrosse anyway.

And if you're a typical public school lax dad, statistically you probably already won anyway. You're probably in one of the best school districts in the country, in a $600K - $990K house (a slightly better long term investment than sending 2 kids to private school), and your kids are on a college track. Out of spite, I'm still not going to say congratulations, because you're a grown up and you shouldn't need it.