Bullis school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The enrollment at Bullis is at a record high...they are adding sections and teachers at all levels grades 3-12. What seems odd on this thread is that so many posters focus on the few high school transfers that join the school. It is true that the school picked up students from Landon, St. Johns, Prep, St. Andrews, Field School, McLean, Sidwell, and Holton this year, and I venture to guess that each of these students had a different reason for making the switch. But there's no way you can argue that the the 20 new 7th graders (many from MoCo public schools, JDS and Norwood) are football recruits or that they added a section of 5th grade to boost the basketball program. Yes, the football team is 3-0, but so is Field Hockey. Come visit...Bullis is incredibly multidimensional and the right pick for so many kids.

Did the field hockey team take a bunch of kids expelled from Landon too?

[Anonymous]

Bullis took two kids who were asked to leave Landon (both happen to be solid football players). One was caught cheating various times and the other due to behavior issues. A football player from St. Johns was kicked out and he too also enrolled at Bullis.

Maybe Bullis believes in 2nd chances.... but I guess its a coincidence that all 3 of them happen to be really good football players.

Its academic reputation has never been stellar and I based on what I'm hearing, I don't think the headmaster seems to care about the academics reputation in the community.

[Anonymous]

@9:28, if you know Landon that well, you also know that more than a dozen kids left the school for Bullis this year. If they were all cheaters, that says something kind of scary about Landon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:@9:28, if you know Landon that well, you also know that more than a dozen kids left the school for Bullis this year. If they were all cheaters, that says something kind of scary about Landon.

As an observer I would say it bears out the claims that Bullis is recruiting like crazy, given that they are going after Landon kids wholesale and taking athletes expelled from Landon and St. John's. It also sounds like Bullis needs to be careful it doesn't get kicked out of its current sports league.

[Anonymous]

More than a dozen kids left Landon for Bullis? I can think of 6 kids. And I'm sure a lot of it has to do with academics. If you can't handle the academic course load at Landon, Bullis is a favorable safety school.

[Anonymous]

Go Bullis! It's great entertainment to see all of these moms from St. Albans/Landon/Prep up in arms, cloaking themselves in the argument for academic excellence, when in fact what they're concerned about is that pretty soon Bullis will rule the independent school sports world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go Bullis! It's great entertainment to see all of these moms from St. Albans/Landon/Prep up in arms, cloaking themselves in the argument for academic excellence, when in fact what they're concerned about is that pretty soon Bullis will rule the independent school sports world.

Ummmm... You must be new here. We really don't give a rat's ass about sports on this particular thread.

[Anonymous]

time for this thread to die

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go Bullis! It's great entertainment to see all of these moms from St. Albans/Landon/Prep up in arms, cloaking themselves in the argument for academic excellence, when in fact what they're concerned about is that pretty soon Bullis will rule the independent school sports world.

Some folk don't realize the importance of learning to be a team player and physical fitness in life. The problem with going through life being pushed to be an academic genius is the kid grows up either with an inflated sense of self-importance or with a sense that they will never be good enough.

Better for kids to learn how to navigate interpersonally. Their smarts might get them a job, but being a team-player will help them keep it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Some folk don't realize the importance of learning to be a team player and physical fitness in life. The problem with going through life being pushed to be an academic genius is the kid grows up either with an inflated sense of self-importance or with a sense that they will never be good enough.

Better for kids to learn how to navigate interpersonally. Their smarts might get them a job, but being a team-player will help them keep it.

This is post is laughable. First of all academics and athletics are not mutually exclusive. Secondly, many people who were once Saturday's Heroes are presently either out work or are employed doing menial labor jobs and a fair number are doing hard time in the penal system.

[Anonymous]

Bullis is a known quantity (in existence 50+ years); co-ed; has a very nice campus in Potomac; small class sizes; academic options for various abilities; thriving athletic program. There are plenty of parents who can and will pay $30k+ for this. It is not "the public you pay for," nor is it Sidwell/STA/NCS. Guess what? 95% of the other DC-area privates are in the same category. Bullis will get bashed and praised in equal measure, but there is both a market and demand for the school.

[Anonymous]

What student will do well at Bullis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More than a dozen kids left Landon for Bullis? I can think of 6 kids. And I'm sure a lot of it has to do with academics. If you can't handle the academic course load at Landon, Bullis is a favorable safety school.

The kids are in all three divisions, more than 12 in total. I know Middle schoolers who were being bullied at Landon and left for Bullis.

[Anonymous]

Bullis has allowed kids to come mid-way through the year... Sounds more like a public school than a private school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bullis has allowed kids to come mid-way through the year... Sounds more like a public school than a private school

He was doing very poorly academically at his current school--His move came just after academic warnings coming out.