SSSAS culture? For parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:02 here. It's hard for many of the reasons others have mentioned. I am sure there are plenty of nice families with nice kids at SSSAS, but the culture seems a bit overly materialistic and anti-intellectual. I am sure it is "rigorous" in the sense that kids have to work hard to get good grades, but that kind of rigor is not the same as having a culture in which curiosity, creativity and individuality flourish. I want my kids to be in a diverse school where there is no pressure to fit into a cookie cutter mold, and where they can be themselves and be appreciated and encouraged.

SSSAS doesn't seem awful-- it seems like a perfectly okay school -- but it doesn't seem all that interesting, either. We are more attracted to Field, Burke, the New School and even TC Williams.

As I said, I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong! If you think I am wrong please tell me. The kids could ride their bikes to school if they went to SSSAS-- oh boy would I love that.

PP here, thanks for answering. I wasn't being snarky re my request for you to elaborate, I am just very interested in what you might have to say. I am not trying to prove you wrong one way or the other.

You mention TC Williams, is your opinion based on US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not at SSSAS, but will say that 1) all the parents I have met from this school seem like really nice people; and 2) anyone who thinks bullying is unique to any place is confused. Further, a school can only do so much about bullying. Fixing it is mostly up to the kids involved, but at young ages MUST involve parents. Teachers and administrators are not there to parent children - bullies or the bullied. There is only so much they can do. Being a private school, they can do more than a public, but it is still only so much. The fix has to happen at home. In my mind, that includes teaching the bullied to stand tall and face it head on.

And what makes you think the PPs didn't give their bullied children support?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:22:02 here. It's hard for many of the reasons others have mentioned. I am sure there are plenty of nice families with nice kids at SSSAS, but the culture seems a bit overly materialistic and anti-intellectual. I am sure it is "rigorous" in the sense that kids have to work hard to get good grades, but that kind of rigor is not the same as having a culture in which curiosity, creativity and individuality flourish. I want my kids to be in a diverse school where there is no pressure to fit into a cookie cutter mold, and where they can be themselves and be appreciated and encouraged.

SSSAS doesn't seem awful-- it seems like a perfectly okay school -- but it doesn't seem all that interesting, either. We are more attracted to Field, Burke, the New School and even TC Williams.

As I said, I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong! If you think I am wrong please tell me. The kids could ride their bikes to school if they went to SSSAS-- oh boy would I love that.

GDS also has the kind of rigor you are referring to and there is no cookie cutter mold for its students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22:02 here. It's hard for many of the reasons others have mentioned. I am sure there are plenty of nice families with nice kids at SSSAS, but the culture seems a bit overly materialistic and anti-intellectual. I am sure it is "rigorous" in the sense that kids have to work hard to get good grades, but that kind of rigor is not the same as having a culture in which curiosity, creativity and individuality flourish. I want my kids to be in a diverse school where there is no pressure to fit into a cookie cutter mold, and where they can be themselves and be appreciated and encouraged.

SSSAS doesn't seem awful-- it seems like a perfectly okay school -- but it doesn't seem all that interesting, either. We are more attracted to Field, Burke, the New School and even TC Williams.

As I said, I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong! If you think I am wrong please tell me. The kids could ride their bikes to school if they went to SSSAS-- oh boy would I love that.

GDS also has the kind of rigor you are referring to and there is no cookie cutter mold for its students.

It is also home of a lot of weirdos and an awful school if your child as any athletic aspirations.

[Anonymous]

PP is probably a SSSAS parent.... That kind of attitude seems typical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22:02 here. It's hard for many of the reasons others have mentioned. I am sure there are plenty of nice families with nice kids at SSSAS, but the culture seems a bit overly materialistic and anti-intellectual. I am sure it is "rigorous" in the sense that kids have to work hard to get good grades, but that kind of rigor is not the same as having a culture in which curiosity, creativity and individuality flourish. I want my kids to be in a diverse school where there is no pressure to fit into a cookie cutter mold, and where they can be themselves and be appreciated and encouraged.

SSSAS doesn't seem awful-- it seems like a perfectly okay school -- but it doesn't seem all that interesting, either. We are more attracted to Field, Burke, the New School and even TC Williams.

As I said, I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong! If you think I am wrong please tell me. The kids could ride their bikes to school if they went to SSSAS-- oh boy would I love that.

GDS also has the kind of rigor you are referring to and there is no cookie cutter mold for its students.

It is also home of a lot of weirdos and an awful school if your child as any athletic aspirations.

Wow, that is super rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:22:02 here. It's hard for many of the reasons others have mentioned. I am sure there are plenty of nice families with nice kids at SSSAS, but the culture seems a bit overly materialistic and anti-intellectual. I am sure it is "rigorous" in the sense that kids have to work hard to get good grades, but that kind of rigor is not the same as having a culture in which curiosity, creativity and individuality flourish. I want my kids to be in a diverse school where there is no pressure to fit into a cookie cutter mold, and where they can be themselves and be appreciated and encouraged.

SSSAS doesn't seem awful-- it seems like a perfectly okay school -- but it doesn't seem all that interesting, either. We are more attracted to Field, Burke, the New School and even TC Williams.

As I said, I would be very, very happy to be proven wrong! If you think I am wrong please tell me. The kids could ride their bikes to school if they went to SSSAS-- oh boy would I love that.

GDS also has the kind of rigor you are referring to and there is no cookie cutter mold for its students.

It is also home of a lot of weirdos and an awful school if your child as any athletic aspirations.

Their cross country and track and field teams are great...won the boys MAC titles 4 years in a row...no other school can boast this. I love how intellectual kids are labelled weirdos by those who feel athletics is most important.