Beauvoir Head has resigned with over a year's advance notice

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

Actually, m wrong in terms of the number of BVR kids and you’re right n that maybe 60 or so BVR kids ended up at Cathedral schools. The list of non-Cathedral schools is correct and reflects the outcomes for about 20 percent of the class. Keeping it real, most parents don’t expect those sort of results for their kids when they start Beauvoir. They are more in line with a middling (not even top) k-6 or 8.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

Your facts are so wrong can you not add? It’s 30 to 35 Beauvoir kids at BOTH STA and NCS which adds up to about 65-70 Beauvoir kids out of a Beauvoir class of 80plus. That means 65-70 currently in 4th at STA/NCS. Please check your facts and do your math before you post on here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

Your facts are so wrong can you not add? It’s 30 to 35 Beauvoir kids at BOTH STA and NCS which adds up to about 65-70 Beauvoir kids out of a Beauvoir class of 80plus. That means 65-70 currently in 4th at STA/NCS. Please check your facts and do your math before you post on here.

Also I will add that Beauvoir does not promise everyone will get into their first choice. Some kids are not a good fit For the cathedral schools and some kids or their families just don’t want to go to the cathedral schools. There’s also that part of the equation you’re leaving out. I know families that did not want the cathedral schools for their child or themselves for a variety of reasons usually being they wanted coed. The schools listed above are nothing to sneeze at and are good schools.

[Anonymous]

Beauvoir makes it clear to prospective parents that admission at NCS/STA is not guaranteed. Some kids just aren’t capable of handling the work. Still. People don’t want to hear it and then later claim they were robbed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir makes it clear to prospective parents that admission at NCS/STA is not guaranteed. Some kids just aren’t capable of handling the work. Still. People don’t want to hear it and then later claim they were robbed.

Especially because children are accepted at Beauvoir as preschoolers. There is no truly accurate way of predicting how academically fabulous they will be by age 9.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir makes it clear to prospective parents that admission at NCS/STA is not guaranteed. Some kids just aren’t capable of handling the work. Still. People don’t want to hear it and then later claim they were robbed.

Especially because children are accepted at Beauvoir as preschoolers. There is no truly accurate way of predicting how academically fabulous they will be by age 9.

The last few years the BVR kids have not done well with respect to academic awards on the close. One year, the class was 30 BVR kids, 12 non and the academic awards were won by 9 of the nons and 3 BVR kids. 12 slots, 30 chances, 3 picks vs 12 slots, 12 chances and 9 selected, not great for the feeder school.

[Anonymous]

Blah blah blah. Hooray for the kids who peak in 4 th grade. 4 th grade at sta is more of a transition for Beauvoir kids but so what? They go on to do quite well at sta and life. Who the heck keeps track of awards for 4 th graders? I really hope you are not a sta parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beauvoir makes it clear to prospective parents that admission at NCS/STA is not guaranteed. Some kids just aren’t capable of handling the work. Still. People don’t want to hear it and then later claim they were robbed.

Especially because children are accepted at Beauvoir as preschoolers. There is no truly accurate way of predicting how academically fabulous they will be by age 9.

The last few years the BVR kids have not done well with respect to academic awards on the close. One year, the class was 30 BVR kids, 12 non and the academic awards were won by 9 of the nons and 3 BVR kids. 12 slots, 30 chances, 3 picks vs 12 slots, 12 chances and 9 selected, not great for the feeder school.

Has anyone told you recently that you're nuts? Who tracks this kind of sh*t unless they're exceptionally neurotic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

Actually, m wrong in terms of the number of BVR kids and you’re right n that maybe 60 or so BVR kids ended up at Cathedral schools. The list of non-Cathedral schools is correct and reflects the outcomes for about 20 percent of the class. Keeping it real, most parents don’t expect those sort of results for their kids when they start Beauvoir. They are more in line with a middling (not even top) k-6 or 8.

What would an acceptable list look like, taking into account what schools take kids at 4th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

Actually, m wrong in terms of the number of BVR kids and you’re right n that maybe 60 or so BVR kids ended up at Cathedral schools. The list of non-Cathedral schools is correct and reflects the outcomes for about 20 percent of the class. Keeping it real, most parents don’t expect those sort of results for their kids when they start Beauvoir. They are more in line with a middling (not even top) k-6 or 8.

What would an acceptable list look like, taking into account what schools take kids at 4th grade?

The word used to describe the results was “amazing,” not acceptable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The new head of Beauvoir seems awesome and I wish her better success with outplacement than last year. No child from last year’s class attended GDS or Potomac. Or Maret. Students from last year’s class attended 12 different schools (not counting the Cathedral schools.) The full list is posted up thread and the somewhat underwhelming results speak for themselves. Let’s hope for a better year this year.

Nice try. Several students were accepted at GDS and chose not to attend. Few DC families consider Potomac a desirable school. Maret had a couple of admits that attended other schools. It’s not particularly desired by Beauvoir families.

No need to litigate. The matriculation results speak for themself.

Your facts are incorrect. Last year outplacement was amazing. 30 to 35 of the 45 kids in the current STA and NCS fourth grades came from Beauvoir. That’s pretty amazing. Most people that go to Beauvoir want to go to the cathedral schools as their first choice. Most kids do get their first choice and last year was And example of that. It sounds like someone on here has an axe to grind with Beauvoir and they should just let it go and move on.

Than you! You actually are making my point. The NCS/STA fewer than half of the class of 80 plus. The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

Actually, m wrong in terms of the number of BVR kids and you’re right n that maybe 60 or so BVR kids ended up at Cathedral schools. The list of non-Cathedral schools is correct and reflects the outcomes for about 20 percent of the class. Keeping it real, most parents don’t expect those sort of results for their kids when they start Beauvoir. They are more in line with a middling (not even top) k-6 or 8.

What would an acceptable list look like, taking into account what schools take kids at 4th grade?

The word used to describe the results was “amazing,” not acceptable.

Well, the last post said "middling", but ok, we can play this game, too. What would an amazing list look like? Beauvoir isn't a k-6 or k-8. It's a k-3. Which means that schools that have spots opening in 4th grade are the only ones that can be on the list. Surely if you're going to slag on the results, you have a better list in mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

You assume that these kids were destined to end up at whatever top schools they want, but the reality is that Beauvoir students are just normal kids (selected in pre-K), with fairly normally distributed test scores. For 4th grade admission, they are competing against pools of kids coming from public and lesser known independents with far superior test scores (since parents of the kids who start scoring very high on testing often self-select their kid into the more competitive admissions races at this point because of those test results). It's a very competitive pool at that age. All things considered, I'd bet that the Beauvoir kids' outplacement outperformed where the test scores say those kids should have ended up for 4th grade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The rest of the class went to the following schools: St. Pats, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, MoCo public schools, NPS, WES, Grace Episcopal, Holton Arms, Lowell, Mater Dei, McLean and a bilingual school. Wouldn’t call that amazing by any stretch. In fact, many of the schools were Beauvoir fallbacks. A couple of top scholols, sure, but parents hoping for a strong nom-Cathedral outcome (particularly a non-religious one) would be better served elsewhere.

You assume that these kids were destined to end up at whatever top schools they want, but the reality is that Beauvoir students are just normal kids (selected in pre-K), with fairly normally distributed test scores. For 4th grade admission, they are competing against pools of kids coming from public and lesser known independents with far superior test scores (since parents of the kids who start scoring very high on testing often self-select their kid into the more competitive admissions races at this point because of those test results). It's a very competitive pool at that age. All things considered, I'd bet that the Beauvoir kids' outplacement outperformed where the test scores say those kids should have ended up for 4th grade.[/quote

They should end up going to whatever school they wanted. That’s the expectation when families enter Beauvoir. They assume they have a golden ticket. Of course, some students may end up having learning disabilities, but the WPPSI is meant to weed that out. The other point is that Beauvoir also should do a better job counseling families so that they don’t have to end up with a second choice school. The counselor should work with families so that the right school and fit is also the first choice school. The rate of disappointment is too high. But if you think the results are “amazing,” knock yourself out.

[Anonymous]

So how do we think this year will go for outplacement? The school and board threw everything they had into making last year a successful one in next school admissions, and no one thinks credit goes to the outplacement director. So will it work out again for this year’s 3rd grade? At least there is finally a real HoS involved in the process.