What’s Something About Your School You Would Have LOVED To Know Before Enrolling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:10000% No one will say it’s a bad class before you get there and there is no way to know beforehand either.

Everyone said it was a GREAT class and it seems to be great for athletic kids and their tight knit wine moms. The nerdy kids keep trickling away and leaving, miserable.
And yet for my other child it is a great class. People said the parents were “standoffish” but the kids are all just fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10000% No one will say it’s a bad class before you get there and there is no way to know beforehand either.

Everyone said it was a GREAT class and it seems to be great for athletic kids and their tight knit wine moms. The nerdy kids keep trickling away and leaving, miserable.
And yet for my other child it is a great class. People said the parents were “standoffish” but the kids are all just fine.

Can you tell from the accepted students' admission events whether the parents are nice? This is the one thing that concerns me the most: the community and the parents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:10000% No one will say it’s a bad class before you get there and there is no way to know beforehand either.

Everyone said it was a GREAT class and it seems to be great for athletic kids and their tight knit wine moms. The nerdy kids keep trickling away and leaving, miserable.
And yet for my other child it is a great class. People said the parents were “standoffish” but the kids are all just fine.

Can you tell from the accepted students' admission events whether the parents are nice? This is the one thing that concerns me the most: the community and the parents.

Unfortunately, the accepted student events tend to be pretty big and there's not a lot of mingle with the other accepted students' parents--or at least this was our experience for high school. You could sort of "profile" other parents based on what they were wearing, I guess, but that's not exactly a great barometer of what the school is like. For our K-8, the accepted students event was much smaller and we did actually talk with the parents and you could tell who was likely to accept and who was still on the fence/leaning elsewhere. It worked out that the parents who were accepted were all the people we liked.

[Anonymous]

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Can you tell from the accepted students' admission events whether the parents are nice? This is the one thing that concerns me the most: the community and the parents.

There are kind people to be found everywhere. In my experience, anyone who I have initially suspected was “standoffish” was really just a bit socially awkward or not bringing their A game that day. Even if you’ve been at a school for a while it can take energy to walk into a room and turn it on. It can be a lot easier to find the faces you know and relax with them, not to be intentionally exclusionary.

My advice is to bring a warm friendly energy, and you’ll be met with it in return.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:10000% No one will say it’s a bad class before you get there and there is no way to know beforehand either.

Everyone said it was a GREAT class and it seems to be great for athletic kids and their tight knit wine moms. The nerdy kids keep trickling away and leaving, miserable.
And yet for my other child it is a great class. People said the parents were “standoffish” but the kids are all just fine.

Can you tell from the accepted students' admission events whether the parents are nice? This is the one thing that concerns me the most: the community and the parents.

Unfortunately, the accepted student events tend to be pretty big and there's not a lot of mingle with the other accepted students' parents--or at least this was our experience for high school. You could sort of "profile" other parents based on what they were wearing, I guess, but that's not exactly a great barometer of what the school is like. For our K-8, the accepted students event was much smaller and we did actually talk with the parents and you could tell who was likely to accept and who was still on the fence/leaning elsewhere. It worked out that the parents who were accepted were all the people we liked.

Yes, we have only been to smaller schools so far. It is odd that, even though I try to build connections, I haven't gotten to chat with any other families who are also touring the school. The tours and open houses seem to discourage connection between the parents. Everyone looks so tense. I just really wish we could talk to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That “affinity groups” can be alienating to those who don’t identify with one and don’t wish to conform just in order to not be left out. IMO they should be before or after school extracurricular groups and not part of the school day.

Agree and I say this as an AA parent.

[Anonymous]

- That the school almost closed due to financial mismanagement
- That the school continued to enroll new students even AFTER the Board had voted to close the school but school did not tell current families and new enrollees
- That they would be building TWO townhome communities bordering and closely hovering looking directly over the back and side of the playground
- That said construction that was scheduled to take one year has now taken THREE AND A HALF YEARS and the entire lot looks like a parking lot
- That the lower school teacher and student turnover is super high - every two years there’s is a new inexperienced lower school teacher
- That when you post about them honestly on this site, they try their damndest to make sure it is removed even though you can fact check all of this

#CES Rockville . . . and comment being deleted in 3, 2, 1 . . .

[Anonymous]

*not a parking lot - meant to say construction site. Just drive by - you’ll see!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:10000% No one will say it’s a bad class before you get there and there is no way to know beforehand either.

Everyone said it was a GREAT class and it seems to be great for athletic kids and their tight knit wine moms. The nerdy kids keep trickling away and leaving, miserable.
And yet for my other child it is a great class. People said the parents were “standoffish” but the kids are all just fine.

Can you tell from the accepted students' admission events whether the parents are nice? This is the one thing that concerns me the most: the community and the parents.

Unfortunately, the accepted student events tend to be pretty big and there's not a lot of mingle with the other accepted students' parents--or at least this was our experience for high school. You could sort of "profile" other parents based on what they were wearing, I guess, but that's not exactly a great barometer of what the school is like. For our K-8, the accepted students event was much smaller and we did actually talk with the parents and you could tell who was likely to accept and who was still on the fence/leaning elsewhere. It worked out that the parents who were accepted were all the people we liked.

Yes, we have only been to smaller schools so far. It is odd that, even though I try to build connections, I haven't gotten to chat with any other families who are also touring the school. The tours and open houses seem to discourage connection between the parents. Everyone looks so tense. I just really wish we could talk to them.

Because people attending a tour or open house can be very unrepresentative of the people who will actually apply, get in, and go!

It's

[Anonymous]

Would have loved to know the the parent community is full of status obsessed people only interested in those that can help them climb socially or professionally or both. Nice to you until they get into the club you helped them get into then drop you. Those types.

[Anonymous]

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Wish I had known that there were so many vocal Trump supporting families and country club members.

+ 100 This and that they and their kids are polarizing, divisive, exclusive - ruin the cohesiveness of the school culture.

Beyond shameful.

[Anonymous]

That the change in leadership would meaningfully change the tone of the school, slowly,and the quickly and for the worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would have loved to know the the parent community is full of status obsessed people only interested in those that can help them climb socially or professionally or both. Nice to you until they get into the club you helped them get into then drop you. Those types.

Which club?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would have loved to know the the parent community is full of status obsessed people only interested in those that can help them climb socially or professionally or both. Nice to you until they get into the club you helped them get into then drop you. Those types.

Which club?

The club with the most shallow members.

[Anonymous]

That the HOS can be bribed.