If you could choose to send you DS to any private school in the DC Metro area

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St Patricks

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beauvoir

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St. Albans

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St. Anselm's Abbey

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Anonymous wrote:St Patricks

What kind of school is that? Where is it?

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St Pat's is in DC and is an amazing school with strong arts, academics, nurturing faculty and a really positive atmosphere. www.stpatsdc.org (I think)

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Beauvoir, then STA or Landon.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Anselm's Abbey

is a this a school or day care center?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St. Anselm's Abbey

is a this a school or day care center?

St. Anselm's Abbey School is for gifted boys, grades 6 through 12.

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No offense meant, but St. Anselm's Abbey is a private Catholic boys school. Where did the 'gifted' thing come from? Because some kids won't be accepted?

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Anonymous wrote:No offense meant, but St. Anselm's Abbey is a private Catholic boys school. Where did the 'gifted' thing come from? Because some kids won't be accepted?

The curriculum is accelerated and very rigorous. Sixth graders read Shakespeare, seventh graders learn Latin, eighth graders continue Latin and add a modern language, etc. Math and science are also advanced. You can read about the curriculum and history of the school on its website.

A lot of us dislike the "gifted" label, because everyone is gifted somehow. Also, the term has been watered down in school districts where everyone who wants to take a challenging course has to be labeled as gifted. So the standard that Saint Anselm's seems to be using now is "demonstrated academic achievement." Whatever you call it, a boy will be accepted, and retained, only if he shows he can keep up with a very rigorous academic program, and not hold back the rest of the class. It's not a school that a family can just buy its way into.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Sixth graders read Shakespeare, seventh graders learn Latin, eighth graders continue Latin and add a modern language, etc. Math and science are also advanced. You can read about the curriculum and history of the school on its website.

This sounds like normal curriculum to me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No offense meant, but St. Anselm's Abbey is a private Catholic boys school. Where did the 'gifted' thing come from? Because some kids won't be accepted?

The curriculum is accelerated and very rigorous. Sixth graders read Shakespeare, seventh graders learn Latin, eighth graders continue Latin and add a modern language, etc. Math and science are also advanced. You can read about the curriculum and history of the school on its website.

A lot of us dislike the "gifted" label, because everyone is gifted somehow. Also, the term has been watered down in school districts where everyone who wants to take a challenging course has to be labeled as gifted. So the standard that Saint Anselm's seems to be using now is "demonstrated academic achievement." Whatever you call it, a boy will be accepted, and retained, only if he shows he can keep up with a very rigorous academic program, and not hold back the rest of the class. It's not a school that a family can just buy its way into.

I think there are several area schools that do these things and I know at least one school requires both Latin and French for 7th and 8th grade. And these schools are not Catholic a big plus for some of us as I do not want my DS sitting through mandatory religion class.

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WIS (all grades) or Sidwell (upper grades).

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I am guessing the St. Anselm's Abbey poster is a troll, because her response is simply too deliberately incendiary (references to not being able to buy your way in, etc).

...unless of course that's one of the character traits the rigorous academy for gifted chidlren looks for in its parent body!