Let's talk about prestige

[Anonymous]

What does the prestige of a school mean to you? What do you see as the value add? What do you see as the pitfalls? How do you think prestige of a school has/will effect your child?

[Anonymous]

Value would be alumni network for future employment and preferential school admission to future children.

[Anonymous]

Social climbing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does the prestige of a school mean to you? What do you see as the value add? What do you see as the pitfalls? How do you think prestige of a school has/will effect your child?

You can watch your frenemies faces when you answer their questions about which school your kids got into… other than that it means nothing.

[Anonymous]

It means the school can actual suk at teaching, keep changing its curriculum for the worse, be poorly run and managed, and completely avoid communicating with parents on important things, and no one says much at all to them.

Prestige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It means the school can actual suk at teaching, keep changing its curriculum for the worse, be poorly run and managed, and completely avoid communicating with parents on important things, and no one says much at all to them.

Prestige.

Driving onto the Cathedral grounds and feel the eyes of the tourists.

[Anonymous]

I have one child at a so-called Big 3 and one at a tiny school no one has heard of. The child at the big 3 is getting a more rigorous, thoughtful, engaging curriculum.

[Anonymous]

The frenemies comment is on point. I have a recent graduate of Sidwell and a couple of acquaintances who are deeply striving but work hard to pretend they are not. It's amusing to feel their envy. NOTE I am not suggesting envy is widespread or that Sidwell > all other schools -- just that these two women clearly wish their same-age kids could've attended a school like Sidwell, if only they had the money at the time and their kids would be admitted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The frenemies comment is on point. I have a recent graduate of Sidwell and a couple of acquaintances who are deeply striving but work hard to pretend they are not. It's amusing to feel their envy. NOTE I am not suggesting envy is widespread or that Sidwell > all other schools -- just that these two women clearly wish their same-age kids could've attended a school like Sidwell, if only they had the money at the time and their kids would be admitted.

You seem terrible.

[Anonymous]

I went to one of the top privates in NYC. It's gotten me nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means the school can actual suk at teaching, keep changing its curriculum for the worse, be poorly run and managed, and completely avoid communicating with parents on important things, and no one says much at all to them.

Prestige.

Driving onto the Cathedral grounds and feel the eyes of the tourists.

Prestige eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The frenemies comment is on point. I have a recent graduate of Sidwell and a couple of acquaintances who are deeply striving but work hard to pretend they are not. It's amusing to feel their envy. NOTE I am not suggesting envy is widespread or that Sidwell > all other schools -- just that these two women clearly wish their same-age kids could've attended a school like Sidwell, if only they had the money at the time and their kids would be admitted.

You seem terrible.

Agreed. What a deeply awful person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to one of the top privates in NYC. It's gotten me nowhere.

Which is one of the pitfalls of prestige. It raises expectations and reduces opportunities for blaming the environment for a poor outcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It means the school can actual suk at teaching, keep changing its curriculum for the worse, be poorly run and managed, and completely avoid communicating with parents on important things, and no one says much at all to them.

Prestige.

Driving onto the Cathedral grounds and feel the eyes of the tourists.

Prestige eyes.

This can make your head swell up to a dangerously grotesque size. advisable to get some special window tinting in the car to protect yourself and the young chosen ones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does the prestige of a school mean to you? What do you see as the value add? What do you see as the pitfalls? How do you think prestige of a school has/will effect your child?

You can watch your frenemies faces when you answer their questions about which school your kids got into… other than that it means nothing.

But it is totally worth it!!!!