St. Andrews vs. STA for high school?

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

Experts rank outcomes and one school has better outcomes than the other. No one drinks whiskey and discusses schools at CCC, and anyone in the know would know that, they drink aged Manhattans at the Metropolitan Club and scoff at the anti-rigor brigade.

You clearly are not an educator and know many people at CC. It is definitely status minded in unhealthy ways.

If you want to buy into ignorant rigid hierarchies of schools that are not focussed on the well being of individual students, it is on you .

They ARE focused on outcomes, and individuals, and getting things done right per their students, hence the superior ranking. Your assumption that they are not and that their position is stale or rigid or what have you is YOUR mistake. Your appeal to authority and not to facts is also on you. Shame for an “educator” (do you have an advanced degree in ed admin too?) to focus on the wrong things.

Oh puhleeze I know drug addicts who graduated from StA because mommy and daddy were above the fray. Of course, there will be bright high achieving students there as well. Schools do not have the same outcomes for all students.

My gifted DD was very well served at SAES. She is now at a highly elite school in a rarified field excelling at the highest levels. She was a national champion in her chosen sport. One of the things I am proudest of is that she is a kind, modest and well rounded person. SAES definitely cultivated those qualities.

I don’t know where you get your negative stereotypes about SAES from apart from the country club. It is a rigorous and inclusive Episcopal school. SAES offers highly differentiated programs for gifted students but their mission is to embrace different kinds of learners in evidence-based ways. Obviously, StA is a great school with a storied history but the cathedral schools are not the best school for many bright and hard working students. Is SAES perfect? Of course not. Is it the best school for every student? Of course not. But it serves many talented students very well in ways that don’t cripple their emotional and psychological development.

I have met lovely people from CC Club and St Albans but you are not a good ambassador for either of them: You come across as the epitome of a pompous twit - vainglorious, smug, and trying to elevate your fragile ego on the backs of children and youth who don’t fit your narrow mold for success.

I am doing none of the things you are actually doing. I am defending the very, very hardworking students, staff and admin of STA from your presumptuous attacks. Your “mommy and daddy” crap, your “puhleeze” and your inability to recognize that there are numerous people responding to your bad takes and SAES plugging (much of it tongue in cheek, which you are also missing) make you and your school look bad. Do you really believe anyone bad mouths the school at CCC or any where else? Are you that insecure and remote to reality?

You repeatedly degraded SAES as not in the same league and not worthy of equal consideration. Then you degraded SAES student outcomes.

There are multiple people defending SAES as well.

They are two of three Episcopal schools officially under the umbrella of the episcopal diocese of Washington and therefore literally in the same league .

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

Experts rank outcomes and one school has better outcomes than the other. No one drinks whiskey and discusses schools at CCC, and anyone in the know would know that, they drink aged Manhattans at the Metropolitan Club and scoff at the anti-rigor brigade.

You clearly are not an educator and know many people at CC. It is definitely status minded in unhealthy ways.

If you want to buy into ignorant rigid hierarchies of schools that are not focussed on the well being of individual students, it is on you .

They ARE focused on outcomes, and individuals, and getting things done right per their students, hence the superior ranking. Your assumption that they are not and that their position is stale or rigid or what have you is YOUR mistake. Your appeal to authority and not to facts is also on you. Shame for an “educator” (do you have an advanced degree in ed admin too?) to focus on the wrong things.

Oh puhleeze I know drug addicts who graduated from StA because mommy and daddy were above the fray. Of course, there will be bright high achieving students there as well. Schools do not have the same outcomes for all students.

My gifted DD was very well served at SAES. She is now at a highly elite school in a rarified field excelling at the highest levels. She was a national champion in her chosen sport. One of the things I am proudest of is that she is a kind, modest and well rounded person. SAES definitely cultivated those qualities.

I don’t know where you get your negative stereotypes about SAES from apart from the country club. It is a rigorous and inclusive Episcopal school. SAES offers highly differentiated programs for gifted students but their mission is to embrace different kinds of learners in evidence-based ways. Obviously, StA is a great school with a storied history but the cathedral schools are not the best school for many bright and hard working students. Is SAES perfect? Of course not. Is it the best school for every student? Of course not. But it serves many talented students very well in ways that don’t cripple their emotional and psychological development.

I have met lovely people from CC Club and St Albans but you are not a good ambassador for either of them: You come across as the epitome of a pompous twit - vainglorious, smug, and trying to elevate your fragile ego on the backs of children and youth who don’t fit your narrow mold for success.

I am doing none of the things you are actually doing. I am defending the very, very hardworking students, staff and admin of STA from your presumptuous attacks. Your “mommy and daddy” crap, your “puhleeze” and your inability to recognize that there are numerous people responding to your bad takes and SAES plugging (much of it tongue in cheek, which you are also missing) make you and your school look bad. Do you really believe anyone bad mouths the school at CCC or any where else? Are you that insecure and remote to reality?

You repeatedly degraded SAES as not in the same league and not worthy of equal consideration. Then you degraded SAES student outcomes.

There are multiple people defending SAES as well.

They are two of three Episcopal schools officially under the umbrella of the episcopal diocese of Washington and therefore literally in the same league .

No, I said STA did serve it’s students well and thus did not get its ranking based on staid stereotypes. I went after that specific attack.

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

Experts rank outcomes and one school has better outcomes than the other. No one drinks whiskey and discusses schools at CCC, and anyone in the know would know that, they drink aged Manhattans at the Metropolitan Club and scoff at the anti-rigor brigade.

You clearly are not an educator and know many people at CC. It is definitely status minded in unhealthy ways.

If you want to buy into ignorant rigid hierarchies of schools that are not focussed on the well being of individual students, it is on you .

They ARE focused on outcomes, and individuals, and getting things done right per their students, hence the superior ranking. Your assumption that they are not and that their position is stale or rigid or what have you is YOUR mistake. Your appeal to authority and not to facts is also on you. Shame for an “educator” (do you have an advanced degree in ed admin too?) to focus on the wrong things.

Oh puhleeze I know drug addicts who graduated from StA because mommy and daddy were above the fray. Of course, there will be bright high achieving students there as well. Schools do not have the same outcomes for all students.

My gifted DD was very well served at SAES. She is now at a highly elite school in a rarified field excelling at the highest levels. She was a national champion in her chosen sport. One of the things I am proudest of is that she is a kind, modest and well rounded person. SAES definitely cultivated those qualities.

I don’t know where you get your negative stereotypes about SAES from apart from the country club. It is a rigorous and inclusive Episcopal school. SAES offers highly differentiated programs for gifted students but their mission is to embrace different kinds of learners in evidence-based ways. Obviously, StA is a great school with a storied history but the cathedral schools are not the best school for many bright and hard working students. Is SAES perfect? Of course not. Is it the best school for every student? Of course not. But it serves many talented students very well in ways that don’t cripple their emotional and psychological development.

I have met lovely people from CC Club and St Albans but you are not a good ambassador for either of them: You come across as the epitome of a pompous twit - vainglorious, smug, and trying to elevate your fragile ego on the backs of children and youth who don’t fit your narrow mold for success.

So, you don’t have a son and didn’t ever really focus on STA anyway?

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

They are very different communities and yes STA has a very very strong Chevy contingent many board members belong there as well and yes it does influence the social life of kids and parents. Just ask anyone about the Christmas dance.

What is the Christmas dance?

If you have to ask your kid will not get into it.

Indeed. But what is it?

DP. It is a very large dance for students in December at Chevy Chase Club and a committee oversees the guest list of who is invited and admitted. More than half of the committee this year was STA parents and several were board members. This is something you would never experience at St. Andrew’s so trying to give an example of how the parent communities are very different.

Interesting? Who sponsors it. It’s not a CCC or STA thing. Must be a separate group with overlap.

Seriously? What do you mean who sponsors it? Clearly you do not live in DC. Chevy Chase Club members sponsor it. All on committee are Chevy Chase club members. It is a club event. Yes most on committee were STA parents and some board members which did raise some eyebrows even among CC members.

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

Experts rank outcomes and one school has better outcomes than the other. No one drinks whiskey and discusses schools at CCC, and anyone in the know would know that, they drink aged Manhattans at the Metropolitan Club and scoff at the anti-rigor brigade.

You clearly are not an educator and know many people at CC. It is definitely status minded in unhealthy ways.

If you want to buy into ignorant rigid hierarchies of schools that are not focussed on the well being of individual students, it is on you .

They ARE focused on outcomes, and individuals, and getting things done right per their students, hence the superior ranking. Your assumption that they are not and that their position is stale or rigid or what have you is YOUR mistake. Your appeal to authority and not to facts is also on you. Shame for an “educator” (do you have an advanced degree in ed admin too?) to focus on the wrong things.

Oh puhleeze I know drug addicts who graduated from StA because mommy and daddy were above the fray. Of course, there will be bright high achieving students there as well. Schools do not have the same outcomes for all students.

My gifted DD was very well served at SAES. She is now at a highly elite school in a rarified field excelling at the highest levels. She was a national champion in her chosen sport. One of the things I am proudest of is that she is a kind, modest and well rounded person. SAES definitely cultivated those qualities.

I don’t know where you get your negative stereotypes about SAES from apart from the country club. It is a rigorous and inclusive Episcopal school. SAES offers highly differentiated programs for gifted students but their mission is to embrace different kinds of learners in evidence-based ways. Obviously, StA is a great school with a storied history but the cathedral schools are not the best school for many bright and hard working students. Is SAES perfect? Of course not. Is it the best school for every student? Of course not. But it serves many talented students very well in ways that don’t cripple their emotional and psychological development.

I have met lovely people from CC Club and St Albans but you are not a good ambassador for either of them: You come across as the epitome of a pompous twit - vainglorious, smug, and trying to elevate your fragile ego on the backs of children and youth who don’t fit your narrow mold for success.

So, you don’t have a son and didn’t ever really focus on STA anyway?

We have a son also and chose elsewhere.

I was speaking to there being many excellent student outcomes at SAES.

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

Experts rank outcomes and one school has better outcomes than the other. No one drinks whiskey and discusses schools at CCC, and anyone in the know would know that, they drink aged Manhattans at the Metropolitan Club and scoff at the anti-rigor brigade.

You clearly are not an educator and know many people at CC. It is definitely status minded in unhealthy ways.

If you want to buy into ignorant rigid hierarchies of schools that are not focussed on the well being of individual students, it is on you .

They ARE focused on outcomes, and individuals, and getting things done right per their students, hence the superior ranking. Your assumption that they are not and that their position is stale or rigid or what have you is YOUR mistake. Your appeal to authority and not to facts is also on you. Shame for an “educator” (do you have an advanced degree in ed admin too?) to focus on the wrong things.

Oh puhleeze I know drug addicts who graduated from StA because mommy and daddy were above the fray. Of course, there will be bright high achieving students there as well. Schools do not have the same outcomes for all students.

My gifted DD was very well served at SAES. She is now at a highly elite school in a rarified field excelling at the highest levels. She was a national champion in her chosen sport. One of the things I am proudest of is that she is a kind, modest and well rounded person. SAES definitely cultivated those qualities.

I don’t know where you get your negative stereotypes about SAES from apart from the country club. It is a rigorous and inclusive Episcopal school. SAES offers highly differentiated programs for gifted students but their mission is to embrace different kinds of learners in evidence-based ways. Obviously, StA is a great school with a storied history but the cathedral schools are not the best school for many bright and hard working students. Is SAES perfect? Of course not. Is it the best school for every student? Of course not. But it serves many talented students very well in ways that don’t cripple their emotional and psychological development.

I have met lovely people from CC Club and St Albans but you are not a good ambassador for either of them: You come across as the epitome of a pompous twit - vainglorious, smug, and trying to elevate your fragile ego on the backs of children and youth who don’t fit your narrow mold for success.

I am doing none of the things you are actually doing. I am defending the very, very hardworking students, staff and admin of STA from your presumptuous attacks. Your “mommy and daddy” crap, your “puhleeze” and your inability to recognize that there are numerous people responding to your bad takes and SAES plugging (much of it tongue in cheek, which you are also missing) make you and your school look bad. Do you really believe anyone bad mouths the school at CCC or any where else? Are you that insecure and remote to reality?

You repeatedly degraded SAES as not in the same league and not worthy of equal consideration. Then you degraded SAES student outcomes.

There are multiple people defending SAES as well.

They are two of three Episcopal schools officially under the umbrella of the episcopal diocese of Washington and therefore literally in the same league .

No, I said STA did serve it’s students well and thus did not get its ranking based on staid stereotypes. I went after that specific attack.

My apologies if I confused you with someone else making smug attacks on SAES rigor.

Also I should have noted DP for myself.

The unjustified attacks on the quality of education at SAES were unwarranted.

The schools are literally in the same league and worthy of equal consideration depending on the needs of the student and commute.

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

They are very different communities and yes STA has a very very strong Chevy contingent many board members belong there as well and yes it does influence the social life of kids and parents. Just ask anyone about the Christmas dance.

What is the Christmas dance?

If you have to ask your kid will not get into it.

Indeed. But what is it?

DP. It is a very large dance for students in December at Chevy Chase Club and a committee oversees the guest list of who is invited and admitted. More than half of the committee this year was STA parents and several were board members. This is something you would never experience at St. Andrew’s so trying to give an example of how the parent communities are very different.

Interesting? Who sponsors it. It’s not a CCC or STA thing. Must be a separate group with overlap.

Seriously? What do you mean who sponsors it? Clearly you do not live in DC. Chevy Chase Club members sponsor it. All on committee are Chevy Chase club members. It is a club event. Yes most on committee were STA parents and some board members which did raise some eyebrows even among CC members.

Really. What day was it held this year?

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore the “snobs” comments rest, assured, they have zero experience with either school. These are two very different schools.

Obviously, the biggest difference: One is coed one is not.

One is located in the suburbs with a beautiful suburban feel the other is the polar opposite with a fabulous city like feel. Both offet strong academics. Both offer sports. Contact admissions for both schools and decide which one is for you.

Most importantly, I think it’s time to decide whether you want to send your child to a coed school or not.

Keep in mind if you mention Saint Albans or certain other schools here, people love to chime in —even if their kids don’t go there —it’s very strange.

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PP here. Actually I know STA well because I went to NCS and my younger brother went to STA.

True that I do not have direct experience with St Andrew’s. Perhaps it’s changed, but historically it was a school for rich kids who couldn’t get into a more prestigious choice and not nearly as rigorous

The fact that you used the word prestigious just makes me not believe you at all. Even worse, if you did attend NCS then your comment “ prestigious “ is cringey. I say this with all due respect.

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None of these schools are "prestigious" LOL absurd.

LOL - you do not know what " prestigious" means. I do not have a kid at St. Albans, but it is certainly prestigious . St. Andrews is not. You must not be from around here. What-- stuck down in Manassas banning books with your MAGA mom friends? You need a dictionary.

What a specific place to bash. You just gave yourself away.

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

They are very different communities and yes STA has a very very strong Chevy contingent many board members belong there as well and yes it does influence the social life of kids and parents. Just ask anyone about the Christmas dance.

What is the Christmas dance?

If you have to ask your kid will not get into it.

Indeed. But what is it?

DP. It is a very large dance for students in December at Chevy Chase Club and a committee oversees the guest list of who is invited and admitted. More than half of the committee this year was STA parents and several were board members. This is something you would never experience at St. Andrew’s so trying to give an example of how the parent communities are very different.

Interesting? Who sponsors it. It’s not a CCC or STA thing. Must be a separate group with overlap.

Seriously? What do you mean who sponsors it? Clearly you do not live in DC. Chevy Chase Club members sponsor it. All on committee are Chevy Chase club members. It is a club event. Yes most on committee were STA parents and some board members which did raise some eyebrows even among CC members.

Really. What day was it held this year?

What does it matter at this point? It has come and gone.

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This whole conversation is ludicrous. The history of SAES is that it splintered off from StA and NCS to forge a (slightly) different path.

Is the United States "less prestigious" than Britain? I mean maybe, but that doesn't mean noone wants to be in the US. Nor does it mean that the two places are so very different.

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Anonymous wrote:Social media for any school is marketing. Even so, I think you can get a sense of each school by flipping through their Instagram page. They seem pretty different, even on the surface.

https://www.instagram.com/st.albansschool/
https://www.instagram.com/saeslions/

STA is in a league far above SAES.

Have you been sleeping for decades?

No one would send their son to SAES if they got accepted to STA.

This is true. Not in the same league.
Just like how no one decides to go to Dartmouth or Cornell if they get into Harvard. Even though they are all good schools

Are you really that clueless or simply stirring the spot?

The “spot” is that the PP is spot on…they are not in the same league.

According to pompous twits not pedagogical experts .

Sit at my foot and learn: STA is the better school. Period. 100 out of 100 pedagogical experts agree.

Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same.

They are very different communities and yes STA has a very very strong Chevy contingent many board members belong there as well and yes it does influence the social life of kids and parents. Just ask anyone about the Christmas dance.

What is the Christmas dance?

If you have to ask your kid will not get into it.

Indeed. But what is it?

DP. It is a very large dance for students in December at Chevy Chase Club and a committee oversees the guest list of who is invited and admitted. More than half of the committee this year was STA parents and several were board members. This is something you would never experience at St. Andrew’s so trying to give an example of how the parent communities are very different.

Interesting? Who sponsors it. It’s not a CCC or STA thing. Must be a separate group with overlap.

Seriously? What do you mean who sponsors it? Clearly you do not live in DC. Chevy Chase Club members sponsor it. All on committee are Chevy Chase club members. It is a club event. Yes most on committee were STA parents and some board members which did raise some eyebrows even among CC members.

Really. What day was it held this year?

What does it matter at this point? It has come and gone.

I just want to know when it was. That’s why.