When parents are only applying to Maret, GDS and Sidwell...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

+1

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

This can't be pure social climbing if they are not applying to STA/NCS.

+1 Yeah, doing Maret and not STA/NCS seems odd. But Maret is full of legacy kids, so maybe that's the reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.
And more power to you.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

And more power to you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

In the words of my neighbor, if you can't go to a top 3 school, might as well go public. Lesser privates have a disproportionate number of kids who couldn't function well in a public school classroom for a variety of reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Well their middle and upper schools are all 10 minutes from each other in Nw DC so logistics matter.

Sounds like they want coed too.

[Anonymous]

Social climbing in Washington DC?!? What a joke. Talk about a type of social whatever that does NOT transfer elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Social climb to what? This isn’t 18th century France.

+1 They're expensive private schools in an area of solid to great public schools depending on where you live. The demand for these schools is not infinite, and for some people it doesn't make sense to spend 30-40k per year per kid for a private that isn't highly regarded (although GDS and Sidwell are better than Maret academically from what I've seen).

Oh! The Maret folk will be out to get you for that comment. Don't you know? Maret is THE BEST SCHOOL EVER!

[Anonymous]

We are applying to one $40k private (top choice) and one $20k private (safety). If we don’t get in, we’ll happily stick with public. I’m sure we would be fine in public, but we can afford private.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

In the words of my neighbor, if you can't go to a top 3 school, might as well go public. Lesser privates have a disproportionate number of kids who couldn't function well in a public school classroom for a variety of reasons.

The irony of this narrow minded logic will be lost on you for sure - But the Big 3/ 5 have a disproportionate number of students who can’t function well within those schools! 🤣🤣🤣

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Could this seriously be an educational decision for elementary school or is it just pure social climbing strategy?

Maybe more like lack of imagination/ intellectual laziness Coupled with rigid ideas of what high quality education looks like.

There are so many good options in this area and there is no guarantee that all bright, wealthy (or poorer) students will be happy or thrive at schools with the highest snob value.

Enjoy St Pat's

Ha ha … never set foot there but we probably would have considered it after hearing good things from friends.

Enjoy your overrated pressure cookers where heavy homework load is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Maret sounds less Crazy but our kids’ excellent schools attract many burned out refugees from other top 5 schools.

The point is at some stage in the value-proposition game, you go public.

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That may be your point but it sure ain’t mine. My point is finding the best educational environment for my child, which may or may not be a Big 3 pressure cooker. She/ he is very bright (top half percent in some categories) but also very creative and social n a non preppy way. We care about him/ her/ they feeling safe to be their own true self and in being prepared for his/ her own unique future.

[Anonymous]

We only applied to Sidwell. Would have been fine with our public options in DC, otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Certainly the social connections are a factor when applying to the K-12s. In addition, families want in early so their kid doesn’t have to compete when admissions is more merit-based in later grades. Also, families who can afford $50k/yr for 13 years are almost guaranteed to be with mostly wealthy families for at least the first six or seven years and that’s what they want.