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Beauvoir Head has resigned with over a year's advance notice
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Anonymous
Fingers crossed that it will be a good year. New HOS is amazing. |
Anonymous
| I suspect it will work out at the other Cathedral schools, but others are a crap shoot. OD is afraid of her own shadow - can’t imagine that makes for successful student advocacy. If I were a 2nd grade parent I’d be researching private admissions consultants. |
Anonymous
+100 |
Anonymous
| BVR.. hopefully the new head will clean house next year and revamp the curriculum. School needs to be brought into this century and some of the old heads need to retire. |
Anonymous
| Seriously. If you aren't using it as a feeder to STA/NCS, you've wasted a huge amount of money. BVR kids used to be well regarded everywhere, but since J.C. left it's been downhill, and this OD is a debacle. Everything she says is some sort of non-substantive platitude. I have no actual information about my child's prospects! |
Anonymous
| +100. If the current OD is still there next year, major issue as I see it. |
Anonymous
YES. Major test of how in touch the new HoS is. |
Anonymous
| We love the school and have no regrets. We are lucky that our children are pretty good candidates on their own and that I am a good advocate for them because the outplacement director really was zero help. We still have a child at the Beauvoir and think the world of the teachers, community, and the new head. But I agree that the outplacement director needs to go. I was very disappointed that Vorenberg did not choose an internal candidate. We lost some really good people under her and I am very glad that she is gone. The current placement director was the former heads hire and she should not of been allowed to stay on. She came from a school in North Carolina and really does not have they insider knowledge of DC schools that the job requires. She also extremely nice to some families and dismissive of others. |
Anonymous
| And Even if kids get into phenomenal schools this year again I think that speaks to the quality of the school and the students and not to the outplacement director. We experienced out placement with her last year and our child ended up where we wanted but that’s because of the teachers and our child. The out placement director couldn’t field basic questions and went so far as to recommend that we contact different schools instead of doing her homework and contacting the schools on our behalf. And yes I’ve communicated this to school. |
Anonymous
Am I missing something? These results for last year look excellent to me. 90% accepted to NCS/STA, 88% admitted to first choice school. https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/224/photo/orig_photo720663_8220925.png?w=1920 |
Anonymous
Totally - it looks great, and was. The problem is that results were horrible the year. In the year you cite, the board used every contact they had to get kids in to stop the panic, and they aren't going to keep doing that every year. And while I do think that the next schools generally like Beauvoir kids, the parents have no confidence in the outplacement director. |
Anonymous
Sorry - meant to say the results were horrible the year BEFORE. |
Anonymous
It’s 90 percent of this who applied to NCS/STA, not 90 percent of the class. 88 percent first choice isn’t really great as it means about 10-12 kids/families didn’t get in where they wanted. Like others said, Beauvoir is great for those who want to go to Cathedral schools, but you might want to avoid it if you don’t want to end up at Cathedral schools. You’re probably better footing by going to another k-12 to a school likr St Pats, NPS, Sheridan or Lowell. |
Anonymous
OR to a school like... |
Anonymous
It's impossible to say this without knowing the test scores of those students and the test scores of students from other schools competing with them. Speaking as a non-Beauvoir parent whose DS recently went through the 4th grade admissions process at several nearby co-ed schools, my sense is that being from a lesser known school likely makes it harder if you assume equivalent test scores. If there are Beauvoir parents that assume that their kid doesn't need equivalent (or at least competitive) test scores to applicants from other places, that's really just a problem with the expectations of those parents, not the Beauvoir outplacement office. |