Do safety schools exist anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Not SAES.

SAES is definitely a safety school unless you child is a poor student.

For future applicants, this is absolutely not true. SAES provided the absolute best financial aid of the many schools DC was accepted at and extra benefits that really help like subsidized bus, etcetera

Also, if you read the history of the school you see the school was founded specifically to *not* be the same as St.Alban's.

From the website;
"From its early days, the school cultivated challenging programs in a joyful and supportive atmosphere, celebrating its students’ diversity of interests, backgrounds and abilities and developing each child’s potential..."

My son goes to St. Alban's. St. Andrew's is definitely not St. Alban's. I think everyone would agree with that.

Obviously

They're different. One is in a suburban setting and the other is in the city. Most obviously one is coed and the other is not. Both great schools. Congrats on your son attending St. Albans and you might want to work on modeling humble behavior if you can.

The differences are far greater than suburban vs. urban.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Not SAES.

SAES is definitely a safety school unless you child is a poor student.

For future applicants, this is absolutely not true. SAES provided the absolute best financial aid of the many schools DC was accepted at and extra benefits that really help like subsidized bus, etcetera

Also, if you read the history of the school you see the school was founded specifically to *not* be the same as St.Alban's.

From the website;
"From its early days, the school cultivated challenging programs in a joyful and supportive atmosphere, celebrating its students’ diversity of interests, backgrounds and abilities and developing each child’s potential..."

My son goes to St. Alban's. St. Andrew's is definitely not St. Alban's. I think everyone would agree with that.

Obviously

They're different. One is in a suburban setting and the other is in the city. Most obviously one is coed and the other is not. Both great schools. Congrats on your son attending St. Albans and you might want to work on modeling humble behavior if you can.

The differences are far greater than suburban vs. urban.

Nobody is disagreeing with you. What they are disagreeing with the idea that one is inherently better for all families.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

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Anonymous wrote:I am going to step passed the rabbit hole on Prep and special needs other than to just say - as a former Special Educator, being on the spectrum is not correlated with low IQ. In fact, many children on the spectrum are highly intelligent and become incredibly successful (see Elon Musk).

Regarding the safety school thing, this is all relative to the student. Similar to college acceptances (I worked in college admissions), a school that is a safety for one student could be a reach for another. For my family, we added St. Patricks and Bullis to our list as "safety schools" and the other schools we applied to were Sidwell, Beauvoir, Maret, and GDS. Luckily, the kids are headed to Sidwell. I don't think Bullis and St. Patricks are bad schools. In fact, for some families they wouldn't be safety schools at all.

Also, Good Counsel - St. Johns - Holy Child - and Holy Cross were universally seen as safety schools when I was growing up in a k-8.

WOW. WOW. WOW!!!! Congrats! ONE acceptance to Sidwell is nowadays almost impossible and awesome. You did it with TWO!

And I also agree with everything you said.

I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

No one is ridiculing a child. It is your projected feelings about the descriptions of the children. You are the only one making a value statement. You have the issues here. You are the one assuming things. You are the one pretending to protect the value of a single school because it descrimites again differently abled kids for some deeply unhealthy reason. I promise GP does not disqualify children for learning differences and that is a good thing. Some believe that they seek these kids out. Also a good thing. There needs to be a place for them. It is important for the community. You really should try to get over your issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

No one is ridiculing a child. It is your projected feelings about the descriptions of the children. You are the only one making a value statement. You have the issues here. You are the one assuming things. You are the one pretending to protect the value of a single school because it descrimites again differently abled kids for some deeply unhealthy reason. I promise GP does not disqualify children for learning differences and that is a good thing. Some believe that they seek these kids out. Also a good thing. There needs to be a place for them. It is important for the community. You really should try to get over your issues.

No, you have an issue with Prep and you think it’s ok to pretend concern about children you know nothing about when you really are ignorant and extremely offensive.

Or, if you really care, you can post a link to the “Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774” you keep mentioning.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

No one is ridiculing a child. It is your projected feelings about the descriptions of the children. You are the only one making a value statement. You have the issues here. You are the one assuming things. You are the one pretending to protect the value of a single school because it descrimites again differently abled kids for some deeply unhealthy reason. I promise GP does not disqualify children for learning differences and that is a good thing. Some believe that they seek these kids out. Also a good thing. There needs to be a place for them. It is important for the community. You really should try to get over your issues.

Then you have probably sought out and placed your children in a school that is inclusive of kids who learn differently. It’s important for your community, yes? Which school is that?

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

No one is ridiculing a child. It is your projected feelings about the descriptions of the children. You are the only one making a value statement. You have the issues here. You are the one assuming things. You are the one pretending to protect the value of a single school because it descrimites again differently abled kids for some deeply unhealthy reason. I promise GP does not disqualify children for learning differences and that is a good thing. Some believe that they seek these kids out. Also a good thing. There needs to be a place for them. It is important for the community. You really should try to get over your issues.

Then you have probably sought out and placed your children in a school that is inclusive of kids who learn differently. It’s important for your community, yes? Which school is that?

Georgetown Prep

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

No one is ridiculing a child. It is your projected feelings about the descriptions of the children. You are the only one making a value statement. You have the issues here. You are the one assuming things. You are the one pretending to protect the value of a single school because it descrimites again differently abled kids for some deeply unhealthy reason. I promise GP does not disqualify children for learning differences and that is a good thing. Some believe that they seek these kids out. Also a good thing. There needs to be a place for them. It is important for the community. You really should try to get over your issues.

“A place for them”? “Important for the community”? They are not charity cases, and you are an AH. As the parent of a dyslexic child who makes straight A’s, got in the 90s for every score on the SSATs, and got into every high school we applied to, screw you. The “place” for my child is wherever the hell they want to be.

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Anonymous wrote:I am going to step passed the rabbit hole on Prep and special needs other than to just say - as a former Special Educator, being on the spectrum is not correlated with low IQ. In fact, many children on the spectrum are highly intelligent and become incredibly successful (see Elon Musk).

Regarding the safety school thing, this is all relative to the student. Similar to college acceptances (I worked in college admissions), a school that is a safety for one student could be a reach for another. For my family, we added St. Patricks and Bullis to our list as "safety schools" and the other schools we applied to were Sidwell, Beauvoir, Maret, and GDS. Luckily, the kids are headed to Sidwell. I don't think Bullis and St. Patricks are bad schools. In fact, for some families they wouldn't be safety schools at all.

Also, Good Counsel - St. Johns - Holy Child - and Holy Cross were universally seen as safety schools when I was growing up in a k-8.

WOW. WOW. WOW!!!! Congrats! ONE acceptance to Sidwell is nowadays almost impossible and awesome. You did it with TWO!

And I also agree with everything you said.

I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.

I was the poster and it was not a joke. I wouldn't joke about children's accomplishments.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Not SAES.

SAES is definitely a safety school unless you child is a poor student.

Kids with b and c grades can definitely get in. Safety, don't know....they are looking for a specific person. Academics are not necessarily what they are looking for so it's hard to get it unless you fit the need.

SAES is a *former* safety school, so there is partial accuracy. SAES has changed, just like the broader DMV private school landscape. The safety school label for St. Andrew's is completely antiquated. They, like most schools, are receiving progressively high apps and is an authentically competitive school to gain admissions. The difference is that SAES welcomes a more academically diverse student body than others. They will consider students with a range of abilities; straight A students as well as students with B and C grades can be accepted but it is a package for consideration. The school does not seek to design an academically homogenous student body (thankfully!). But that does not mean all straight A students will be accepted, nor does it mean that all students with a B or C will be accepted. There are far more quality applicants than spaces available at SAES in recent years, and that proves increasingly true year after year. There will be rejections and sizeable waitlists, no matter the type of student applicant. It is not a safety school....at all. We must accept that these labels are not static - it can change over time. It's like telling prospective homebuyers they'll need only $500k for a new construction SFH in Silver Spring just because that's what you paid in 2008.

The reality changes over time, and the reality at SAES most certainly has. Parents and students are facing that reality, especially post-pandemic, and should not falsely feel badly about an unsuccessful application due to a false narrative about the 'ease' of getting into SAES. That is simply not true! It is a wonderful, welcoming school but it is not a safety school.



It's a safety school.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
SAES
To name a few.

Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

It is you that is cruel. Why do you assume learning differences =bad. All 🏫 schools should aspire to include


Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

For the sake of the kid at prep and their parents (assuming this is a real kid) this thread should be taken down. PP is so cruel, ignorant and offensive.

You are the cruel one. Why do you assume learning differences =bad? All schools should aspire yo what Prep is apparently offering. It's a good thing that kids with inherent challenges found their way there.

You truly are a terrible person.

One can conclude that Prep must be a pretty awesome place to have earned the animus of someone like you.

Why do you hate kids with learning differences?

Why are you using children, children with autism and one particular boy who is going to a particular school to ridicule that school? What is wrong with you?

No one is ridiculing a child. It is your projected feelings about the descriptions of the children. You are the only one making a value statement. You have the issues here. You are the one assuming things. You are the one pretending to protect the value of a single school because it descrimites again differently abled kids for some deeply unhealthy reason. I promise GP does not disqualify children for learning differences and that is a good thing. Some believe that they seek these kids out. Also a good thing. There needs to be a place for them. It is important for the community. You really should try to get over your issues.

“A place for them”? “Important for the community”? They are not charity cases, and you are an AH. As the parent of a dyslexic child who makes straight A’s, got in the 90s for every score on the SSATs, and got into every high school we applied to, screw you. The “place” for my child is wherever the hell they want to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Definitely not for elementary schools. I was told Primary Day and NPS were safety schools and got WL at both. *smh*

WES it is for us.

You’re actually headed to the best of the three imo

Um....That's a reach. I would rank WES last of the three but still a good school.

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown Prep
Holy Cross
SJC
Sandy Spring
Oneness
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Georgetown Prep is not a safety. I know kids who chose it over STA and I know kids who got into STA but were rejected from Prep. Prep is a highly desirable school with an acceptance rate below 20%. Nice try though, the haters are always going to hate. It’s so predictable. 🙄

Seriously, the only kids I know that have accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or add. I am so happy that this place is welcoming to them and thier needs.

NP. Based on the handful of Prep students I know, I thought it was a safety school as well. Does Prep offer a Special Ed. program? One kid I know appears to be on the spectrum.

Oh Boy! It’s clear someone’s son got rejected and they are taking out their anger on this forum and making up lies about Prep. A better use of your time might be therapy because ignorant comments such as the above just make you look like a fool.

Why are you so defensive? I have two daughters so I certainly don’t have an ax to grind with Prep. The rising 9th grader I know who was recently admitted to Prep seems to be on the autism spectrum (the high-functioning side). My question is sincere. Does Prep have a program like SJC’s Benilde program for students with learning differences?

Just stop. It's so obvious your posts are not sincere.

My question triggers you for some reason…please move along.

Can some else respond? Does Prep admit students with documented learning differences? Is there a special program?

Check out /research the Georgetown Prep Special Needs Program for Children per the Georgetown Prep School Act of 1774.

In all seriousness, the only kids I know that accepted there are dyslexic, dysgraphic, Add inattentive, and/or adhd. I am truly happy that there is a school welcoming them and their needs.

OMG! You're still at this nonsense? Give it up! You're like a dog with a bone. Please find a hobby. No one believes your lies and nonsense anyway. 🙄