NCS top local-area ranking in new Fifty Best Private Day Schools in The United States

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Anonymous wrote:What NCS ding-a-ling posted this? Thanks for the giggle.

Lol, and with all the careful explanations why St. Albans didn't make the Top 50! Too funny!

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STA takes boarders. But that source is laughable though I do agree NCS, Maret and Sidwell are all LOVELY and GOOD and COMPETITIVE DC schools

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The top 15 schools are quite legit. I suspect that Sidwell is so low on the list because they do not publish college placement.

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Anonymous wrote:STA takes boarders. But that source is laughable though I do agree NCS, Maret and Sidwell are all LOVELY and GOOD and COMPETITIVE DC schools

Just conveniently forgetting Potomac??

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Why do you all care? If your child is happy at their private school, isn't that all that matters. i don't think the crazy is the poster or website. It is all you jealous monster moms making sarcastic remarks to try to increase your self esteem in your school choice. Just like bullying. From a family from a non-top 50 placement, congrats NCS, Potomac, Marat and Sidwell

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you all care? If your child is happy at their private school, isn't that all that matters. i don't think the crazy is the poster or website. It is all you jealous monster moms making sarcastic remarks to try to increase your self esteem in your school choice. Just like bullying. From a family from a non-top 50 placement, congrats NCS, Potomac, Marat and Sidwell

You are wrong about the person who created these particular rankings. He is a certifiable nut job. Read the site. That doesn't mean the schools included in his ranking are bad ( or support his creationist beliefs - I know they don't!) But the creationist top 5 rankings are a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:STA takes boarders. But that source is laughable though I do agree NCS, Maret and Sidwell are all LOVELY and GOOD and COMPETITIVE DC schools

Just conveniently forgetting Potomac??

Potomac is too secular for these rankings. Not sure how Maret slipped through.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:STA takes boarders. But that source is laughable though I do agree NCS, Maret and Sidwell are all LOVELY and GOOD and COMPETITIVE DC schools

Just conveniently forgetting Potomac??

Potomac is too secular for these rankings. Not sure how Maret slipped through.

Potomac is #32 in the rankings, slightly above Maret and way above Quaker Sidwell.

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I know a fair amount about the day schools in a number of US cities, and the top part of the rankings look pretty good, actually -- schools listed in the top 10 like Roxbury Latin, Winsor, Harvard-Westlake, College Prep in Oakland, Spence/Brearley/Trinity in NYC, are all very formidable.

After the top 20 things seem a little random (and he doesn't seem very well versed in the DC market) -- Commonwealth in Boston as #20; Maret over Sidwell; etc.

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Although my kids go to neither, I would rank Maret over Sidwell. I think Maret is a better school.

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Anonymous wrote:Although my kids go to neither, I would rank Maret over Sidwell. I think Maret is a better school.

My kids are not at either school either, but . . . Maret has lost multiple teachers to other DC independents (and there are more Maret teachers looking discreetly); they have created a new remedial track for the unqualified athletes (all male, by the way) that they are bringing in; they don't even register on the radar screen in National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists; they had a big pot bust within the last 1-2 years and lightly tapped the druggies on the wrist, thus cementing the druggie Maret slacker reputation for a few more years.

Lower stress? Sure, that's probably reasonable, given the lowered standards and generally less capable cohort than Sidwell/STA/NCS/Holton/Potomac. So if that's the sole measurement of a "better school" to you, you got it.

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Please name one Maret teacher who has left for another DC independent. You are so incredibly wrong about lowered standards and less capable students at Maret. It's still the hardest school to get into in the city and you must just be mad because your child was among the hundreds who were turned down at Maret.

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These rankings are a joke. There are good schools mentioned - probably taken from some other list, but the author la is credibility. Anyone relying on this list is an idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:Please name one Maret teacher who has left for another DC independent. You are so incredibly wrong about lowered standards and less capable students at Maret. It's still the hardest school to get into in the city and you must just be mad because your child was among the hundreds who were turned down at Maret.

NP here. I know two through my husband and I have no kids at either school nor in the age to be applying yet. Not saying that means standards are lowered or whatever else y'all are bickering about, but it's not a myth that teachers are leaving for other places if I am completely out of the process and just know two people socially.

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Anonymous wrote:Please name one Maret teacher who has left for another DC independent. You are so incredibly wrong about lowered standards and less capable students at Maret. It's still the hardest school to get into in the city and you must just be mad because your child was among the hundreds who were turned down at Maret.

NP here. I know two through my husband and I have no kids at either school nor in the age to be applying yet. Not saying that means standards are lowered or whatever else y'all are bickering about, but it's not a myth that teachers are leaving for other places if I am completely out of the process and just know two people socially.

But of course I am not going to name them so keep on believing whatever.