And once more, Freedom Hill

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Anonymous wrote:What is wrong with LA? We are zoned to wolftrap but considering a house in LA. Our eldest kid may be AAP material (not why we're moving) - too early to know for younger child.

The main complaint I hear about LA is that it is over crowded.

I read that the new redistricting should help- what about the teaching as well as class size?

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My main complaint about LA is the parents. I see them at the afterschool pickup in town and they are constantly talking about their DC's achievements, AAP, competitions, etc. I've never seen this at any other school nearby and I know a lot of extremely smart students at other Vienna schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My main complaint about LA is the parents. I see them at the afterschool pickup in town and they are constantly talking about their DC's achievements, AAP, competitions, etc. I've never seen this at any other school nearby and I know a lot of extremely smart students at other Vienna schools.

Mosby Woods has its share of braggers too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My main complaint about LA is the parents. I see them at the afterschool pickup in town and they are constantly talking about their DC's achievements, AAP, competitions, etc. I've never seen this at any other school nearby and I know a lot of extremely smart students at other Vienna schools.

Mosby Woods has its share of braggers too.

Same for Flint Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My main complaint about LA is the parents. I see them at the afterschool pickup in town and they are constantly talking about their DC's achievements, AAP, competitions, etc. I've never seen this at any other school nearby and I know a lot of extremely smart students at other Vienna schools.

So some parents will keep their kids out of good programs in good schools just because they overhear a few things at pickup that they dislike.

I hear parents constantly talking about their kids' athletic achievements and travel teams and tournaments and I get tired of that, but it's considered acceptable. It's their kids' lives and it's what fills the entire family's time; it's what parents talk about with other parents because it's the activity they share. Same is true of kids whose activities are Math Counts or Science Olympiad or orchestra or band or whatever. I doubt these parents were standing around crowing about their kids' genius. If they were telling friends that a kid made it onto an academic team, well, it's that time of year, when the teams are forming. Parents would be having the same conversations about kids getting onto an athletic team. But it's not acceptable in DCUM-land to discuss a kid's academic extracurriculars -- oh, no, that's bragging.

OP, visit Freedom Hill, go to information nights even if they don't apply to your kid's age yet, go to events there, sit in on PTA meetings to get a feel for the overall school, talk to neighbors with kids there who have already gone through K, talk to people who actually have kids in private schools. As you see, posts on DCUM usually end up turning into discussions about bragging parents or other schools, not the one you originally asked about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This school year there are four kindergarten classes, each with a full time teacher and a full time kindergarten aide. While the enrollments may have increased a few since the start of the school year, the four k classes started the school year with 20, 20, 20, and 21 students.

These are great class sizes especially given a teacher and aide-isn't that size (given the adult student ratio) better that the private school class size?

[Anonymous]

10:21 Yes. Many parents actually do not want such a competitive environment for their children even if the school has a good program with benefits to both general ed and AAP. And many people just don't want such a large school either. I'm hopeful that with Westbriar taking the load off Louise Archer having so many AAP students, that the school will be a little more balanced in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My main complaint about LA is the parents. I see them at the afterschool pickup in town and they are constantly talking about their DC's achievements, AAP, competitions, etc. I've never seen this at any other school nearby and I know a lot of extremely smart students at other Vienna schools.

So some parents will keep their kids out of good programs in good schools just because they overhear a few things at pickup that they dislike.

I hear parents constantly talking about their kids' athletic achievements and travel teams and tournaments and I get tired of that, but it's considered acceptable. It's their kids' lives and it's what fills the entire family's time; it's what parents talk about with other parents because it's the activity they share. Same is true of kids whose activities are Math Counts or Science Olympiad or orchestra or band or whatever. I doubt these parents were standing around crowing about their kids' genius. If they were telling friends that a kid made it onto an academic team, well, it's that time of year, when the teams are forming. Parents would be having the same conversations about kids getting onto an athletic team. But it's not acceptable in DCUM-land to discuss a kid's academic extracurriculars -- oh, no, that's bragging.

OP, visit Freedom Hill, go to information nights even if they don't apply to your kid's age yet, go to events there, sit in on PTA meetings to get a feel for the overall school, talk to neighbors with kids there who have already gone through K, talk to people who actually have kids in private schools. As you see, posts on DCUM usually end up turning into discussions about bragging parents or other schools, not the one you originally asked about.

We've been at LA for years...and we haven't heard the bragging at all....seriously. We've heard a ton of bragging from our other friends (who attend Freedom Hill and WBriar)