Potomac parents are SO ANNOYING
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🥇And the gold metal for mental gymnastics goes to POTOMAC!
Peak Potomac Perfomance🎉 |
Anonymous
| Oh come on - they took down all the fun posts |
Anonymous
I mean it's a new kind of fun with what was left behind. But a kind reminder to us all that we can't name people on this side of DCUM because you are essentially doxxing their kid💖 (all the ones that got taken down appear to have been the ones that responded back to and eventually connected to that one). |
Anonymous
The admissions comments didn’t name names. |
Anonymous
Oh interesting, he may have over pruned by mistake because I thought it connected back (but also I'm remembering of what I read through with a cup of coffee and now just giggling at my comment about how nice and calm the discussion was looks unhinged 🤣). |
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| I'm trying to remember, but I think the connecting piece to admissions was that the person who made the pivot into the good convo replied to the naming and said "no there are multiple like it due to a particular somewhat related connection piece in the admissions process" so then all the normal conversations about admissions had that at the root. |
Anonymous
| Sad! It must have been an artful pivot to get to a decent conversation to about admissions... |
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| It mentioned how there is a former board president that writes recs - whenever they write a rec the family is guaranteed acceptance to the school. This doesn’t help the toxic culture at the school nor does the fact that some families are also accepted simply based on the size of their perceived wallet. It’s sad that some schools like Potomac do this to appease parents and forget to consider fit for the child. |
Anonymous
According to their college admits for 2026 -take a look. |
Anonymous
My son is at Gonzaga and the parents I meet are constantly talking about Gonzaga, wearing Gonzaga merch, volunteering at Gonzaga, or hosting Gonzaga events. Of course I am meeting the parents at school events so that makes sense; I have no idea how they behave in the wild. Side note: I attended both Potomac and Cathedral in the 80s and I recall the Potomac parents being more down to earth and the Cathedral parents snootier, but I was a kid and it was a loooong time ago, so take it with a grain of salt. |
Anonymous
Fall 1987 was the first year that students could start 9th and go through 12th grade (class of 1991) in the new high school. The class of 1990 was technically the first class to graduate, but they would have completed 9th grade in the old facilities and only 10th-12th grades in the new facilities. Before that time, the school went through 9th grade. Some new facilities were built in time for the classes of 1990/1991 but I don’t think the build out was complete and there has been a ton newly built and improved since then. For those who think about Potomac as a neighborhood private school - Potomac actually used to be in Georgetown (1904-1951), and there are lots of Georgetown families that sent their kids to Potomac for generations, even though it moved to McLean in 1951. (It was named Potomac bc it was close to the Potomac River when it was in DC). Since the Tysons Corner build out and resulting traffic on Chain Bridge increased in the early 2000s, the Georgetown to Potomac pipeline has decreased. There used to be nothing past old downtown McLean so a DC to McLean drive across Chain Bridge was a reverse commute; now it takes just as long either way both morning and afternoon and Chain Bridge was not built to accommodate that kind of traffic. Anyone who attended Potomac would know about the pedophile as there was a lot of communication sent out to alumni. I remember him vividly from when he was head of what was known then as the intermediate school (7th/8th grades). I am thankful that I am not a victim, deeply saddened for those who are, horrified at how long the abuse went on, and in disbelief that he went from Potomac to be employed at the school my sibling attended (which is where a victim encountered him and reported him). I do still have wonderful memories of Potomac and I am grateful for my experience there; I can only hope that everything that we have learned about child predators since that time has resulted in more systemic protections across the board at Potomac and other schools. It would not dissuade me from sending my children to Potomac. |
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The Potomac School started in DC (1904) and was in Georgetown - after an early re-location from its first site - until 1951 (at which point it moved to McLean). It was named after the Potomac River because the campus was near the river when it was in DC. The purchase of the land in McLean allowed for significant expansion and later (1987) the addition of grades 10-12. As to why the McLean school is in Potomac, that I do not know. I know Potomac’s history because I attended. When I was there (80s), there were quite a few kids that lived in Potomac (the place) and traveled to McLean to attend Potomac (the school) using Georgetown Pike as a short cut from Potomac to McLean. I wonder if that is still the case given the explosion of regional traffic. |
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College admits equates to solid reputation? Didn’t know that was the sum of a person. |
Anonymous
Nice to see this being talked about. I was a student of his and we did not choose Potomac. The handling of that case being the main reason. I have friends who also attended both schools and have chosen another path for their children now. |