As someone who attended DC privates in the last 20 years, the DEFINITIVE best school is...

[Anonymous]

...wherever your kid attends.

Seriously though, the kids and parents who obsess about this are generally the ones everyone else stays away from.

[Anonymous]

And this is why I haven’t so much as opened the “top 15” thread since it hit two pages. 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:...wherever your kid attends.

Seriously though, the kids and parents who obsess about this are generally the ones everyone else stays away from.

Or, wherever you attended (although I think my kid's school is better than mine).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...wherever your kid attends.

Seriously though, the kids and parents who obsess about this are generally the ones everyone else stays away from.

Or, wherever you attended (although I think my kid's school is better than mine).

OP here. School's personalities can change drastically by the time our kids are ready. A dear family friend is an alumnus of a top local school, but he and his wife — also DC native who went to another top area private — sent their kids to another school entirely. They felt the culture of his alma mater had changed over the decades and weren't thrilled with what those changes looked like.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:...wherever your kid attends.

Seriously though, the kids and parents who obsess about this are generally the ones everyone else stays away from.

Or, wherever you attended (although I think my kid's school is better than mine).

Heck no, I hated my Big 3 experience! 😂

I acknowledge it’s a great school for some kids. Not for me, and not for my kid.

[Anonymous]

I completely agree! Schools change, administration changes

[Anonymous]

Mostly all overrated.

Same kid would probably do fine anywhere, even better outside the rat race metros like DC.

[Anonymous]

BIM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:BIM.

Ah, the BIM-bots have arrived.