Spring Hill ES vs private
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Anonymous
| I'd be concerned first and foremost about the quality of teaching, class size, responsiveness of the administration, PTA involvement/proactiveness. If a class is diverse, yes it's great to have that component, but there's so much more to the educational experience than just who your classmates are. And if diversity is such an important factor in your decisions, why do you live in McLean? |
Anonymous
| OP here. There is no need for a snooty response here. I am worried about diversity as i do not want my kid to be the only colored kid between 100 white kids. Someone who hasnt been a minority would never understand that. About living in Mclean, yes, it not very diverse but diverse enough in some pockets. and we make enough money to afford living here, so why not. i wish the PP was concentrating on talking about class ize, quality of teaching, PTA rather than downplaying the diversity issue |
Anonymous
If you want a private with 25%-35% asians (indians+ asians) then try Nysmith - good school with lots of asian kids - if you are willin to spring for the tuition is would meet your criteria (not sure why you moved to mclean for the schools though- because of the gifted program most of the single family home areas in fairfax have the same selection effect as the house price effect of mclean re: the student population - so if you wanted more asians you could easily self-seggregate to the more asian areas in the county). |
Anonymous
| 8:39, your post doesn't make any sense. |
Anonymous
| OP here, wondering if anyone has the data on class sizes and teacher:student ratio at various grades in SH/Langley/Potomac? |
Anonymous
| OP - have you received any more information on Spring Hill. We are also considering and trying to figure out if we need to go private if we are living in that area. Have you visited the school? |
Anonymous
Actually, the PP makes a good point even though you think it's "snooty". (Also...Colored? Really?) We're AA, and are pretty aware of how "diverse" McLean is. THe standard joke in our family is that it must be us and the Powells, at least on this side of McLean. If your kid is "colored", he/she will stand out. The rest of us are just minorites of some sort. |
Anonymous
| Are there diversity statistics available anywhere for Churchill and Spring Hill? |
Anonymous
Same as all of McLean. Overwhelmingly white, a lot of Asians, one or two AA per school and maybe a kid or two from an Embassy. |
Anonymous
| NP here. Remember that the difference btw K and grade 8 is HUGE. Administrations can change, school populations can change, certainly a given class can be completely different from what you are seeing now. I say this as a parent of a DS at a private in grade 9. When he was in K the class was almost 100% Caucasian. 1 AA, no "Asians" (and by that I mean Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and also no Indian). No Native Americans, either. By 8th grade there were at least 4 AA students, 2 Chinese, 3 Korean, there had been one student from the Phillappines, 1 or 2 Japanese, a student from India... and others I can't recall. The point is that the class makeup changes. VA/DC/MD is a diverse an constantly changing area, so if you are looking for diversity chances are you will find it. I think that unless you are looking for a religious school (and even many of the parochial schools are fairly diverse) you will find diversity in the upper years. |
Anonymous
| Are there any Indians in the "asian" make up of McLean? |
Anonymous
Yes, not a lot, but certainly more than AA. |
Anonymous
Many parents have pulled their kids out of Little Langley to attend Churchill Road/Spring Hill because the AAP curriculum is tougher, it's free, and it's more diverse. The class sizes will be double but they'll learn more. Save your funds for college. |
Anonymous
Spring Hill is great. It is not diverse. |
Anonymous
| Unless Asians add to diversity, then Spring Hill is not diverse. At TJ, you could say whites add to the diversity. |