Regret not choosing Maret..

[Anonymous]

I chose another school for DC (K) and now I regret it. Does anybody else feel this way?

[Anonymous]

OP, I'm sure you had solid reasons for choosing the current school. What changed your mind?

[Anonymous]

And the school year hasn't started yet, so what are your regrets based on?

[Anonymous]

Get over it. If you can't change it stop fretting.

[Anonymous]

I know what you mean OP. I regretted turning Sidwell down until the day my DS got into STA. I spent 5 years wondering what the heck I'd done. Very happy now though. How about applying for the next intake?

[Anonymous]

I understand. Our issue was the commute.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't worry about regretting maret. Wait til your kid is in high school and you see the what happens to the kids you know that ended up going to maret.

All dc schools are bubbles but I feel like maret might be the most blinding and far from a typical high school experience. Most of the guys turn out very strange and all the maret girls have no confidence and bend over backwards (or on their knees) to be around more masculine guys, more specifically st albans guys.

You're much better off keeping your kids in public school than sending them to maret. Maret creates kids that wish they went to sta or wish they dated sta guys, and I would never want my kids wishing they were someone else

[Anonymous]

Thanks for that perspective from a rising St Albans junior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry about regretting maret. Wait til your kid is in high school and you see the what happens to the kids you know that ended up going to maret.

All dc schools are bubbles but I feel like maret might be the most blinding and far from a typical high school experience. Most of the guys turn out very strange and all the maret girls have no confidence and bend over backwards (or on their knees) to be around more masculine guys, more specifically st albans guys.

You're much better off keeping your kids in public school than sending them to maret. Maret creates kids that wish they went to sta or wish they dated sta guys, and I would never want my kids wishing they were someone else

PP, exactly, in general private school kids are removed from reality because they perceive themselves as different/better than public school kids. I, too, have observed that many Maret boys seem stranger than the others and not in a good way. The dangers of private school K-12 experience. Both my DCs have attended DC private schools, and their bubbles were popped during freshman year of college after they learned that they weren't quite so special after all.

[Anonymous]

Oh my -- some people are such sweet peas. Have a little empathy folks. OP should be able to reflect and feel a little buyer's remorse for another school over Maret if she wants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for that perspective from a rising St Albans junior.

Yeah, sour grapes from your whine....

[Anonymous]

Wow - I sincerely hope adults are not writing this. How pathetic. I have observed a full range of 'normal' teens at Maret and have not noticed any real differences between them and kids at similar schools. OP, I understand your feelings of regret, but I am sure your child will be happy where he or she goes. If not, you can always try another school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow - I sincerely hope adults are not writing this. How pathetic. I have observed a full range of 'normal' teens at Maret and have not noticed any real differences between them and kids at similar schools. OP, I understand your feelings of regret, but I am sure your child will be happy where he or she goes. If not, you can always try another school.

Thanks for your adult opinion. OP, you may now feel confident that your DC will be happy at the new school because PP said so. Sheesh! This is a discussion forum. There's always more than one perspective.

[Anonymous]

And there's more than one way to respond to a post. Helpful and empathetic is one approach. Snarky and nasty is another. Too little of the former and too much of the latter on this site.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for that perspective from a rising St Albans junior.

Yeah, sour grapes from your whine....

I certainly hope that was a high school student -- and not an adult -- posting his teenage fantasy about girls going down "on their knees" for "more masculine guys, more specifically st albans guys." If that was an adult posting, he should be doubly ashamed. But I'm pretty confident in saying it was a St Albans boy.

It's also pretty telling about how some St Albans boys view girls. Makes me want to set limits on who my daughter dates when she reaches that age. Ick.