Burgundy Farm teachers and foreign language and science program
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According to the school's website, this is a list of the schools attended by recent graduates.
Albert Einstein High School Annandale High School Benjamin Banneker Academic High School Bishop Ireton High School Bishop McNamara High School Bishop O’Connell High School The Bullis School The Cate School (CA) C.D. Hylton Senior High School Collegiate School DeMatha Catholic High School Duke Ellington School of the Arts Edmund Burke School Eleanor Roosevelt High School (MD) Episcopal High School Emerson Preparatory Institute The Field School Flint Hill School Forestville Military Academy Foxcroft School Garrison Forest School The George School (PA) George C. Marshall High School George Mason High School Georgetown Day School Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School George Washington Community School Gonzaga College High School Hayfield Secondary School The Highclare School (UK) Holton-Arms School The Hotchkiss School The Howard Gardner School James Madison High School J.E.B. Stuart High School The Key School Lake Braddock High School Lake Forest Academy (IL) The Madeira School Maret School Marshall High School McLean High School Minnie Howard Ninth Grade Center Mount Vernon High School National Cathedral School The New School of Northern Virginia Oldfields School The O’Neal School (NC) Pacific Crest Community School (OR) Paul VI Catholic High School The Potomac School Proctor Academy Robinson Secondary School St. Albans School St. Andrew's School (DE) St. Anne’s-Belfield School St. Anselm's Abbey St. John’s College High School St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School St. Timothy’s School Sandy Springs Friends School Santa Catalina High School (CA) Scattergood Friends School School Without Walls Sidwell Friends School South County Secondary School Thomas Edison High School Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology Queen Anne School Trinity Episcopal School Vermont Commons School Virginia Episcopal School Walt Whitman High School (MD) Walter Johnson High School Washington-Lee High School Washington International School West Potomac High School Woodlawn High School Woodrow Wilson High School Yorktown High School |
Anonymous
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I find the posting of lists like these to be really strange. Those matriculations should be normal enough to be unremarkable.
The HS one is even stranger. Wow. Yorktown HS! Someone moved to Arlington! |
Anonymous
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I like how they put Marshall HS under both "George C. Marshall HS" and "Marshall HS"
That list is at least half public high schools. I'm not sure why they included those on the list. |
Anonymous
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Burgundy lower school parent here. We're very happy with the school and the teachers.
Most of our friends have children enrolled in public school. We don't feel our child is missing anything we would like them to have. We feel our child is missing plenty we're happy to have her miss. Academically she is not at all behind her peers -- she is very much ahead in reading, though I acknowledge that is not at all atypical as there is a wide range in reading ability. |
Anonymous
This mystifies me. If that's where students go, why should they not be on the list? If they were omitted, there would be accusations of concealment. When my children graduate from Burgundy, they will go to public high school. This is very much our choice. The only reason that would change would be if something goes horribly wrong. I value the resiliency and wisdom that is developed interacting with a broader range of people, just as I value what Burgundy is providing for the younger years. It's OK if you value something different, if you feel your child needs an education from an institution with a particular name, or doesn't have the ability to manage a larger pubic school. Go for it. Just don't assume that either Burgundy or public high school is a second choice for smart kids with options. |
Anonymous
I have one in public and one in private. You misread the intent of my post. It's not the fact that they list public schools...it's just odd that they list every single one. Most schools just indicate something like "and various local public high schools." Most public high schools are not chosen by preference, but by geographic assignment. |
Anonymous
| I am glad all the public high schools are listed. Both of my kids graduated from Burgundy. One went public and the other private. |
Anonymous
Apologies, PP, that I missed your meaning. Here's why I like to see all of the high schools listed: -It gives me a sense of the geographic spread of the students. -When you follow it through to college placements you see the various routes kids take. It is gratifying and encouraging to see there is not one avenue to success. Great college choices both (public and independent) routes. - It represents valuing every child in the class. If a child started at Burgundy in JK, that is 10 years at the school. It would be insulting to suggest that only children proceeding to independent schools are worth acknowledging. The list is as much for the internal community as well as the external community. |
Anonymous
| Exactly. Several years ago public schools were not listed one year. It made those kids who were going on to public school feel less valued than those who were going to private school. When this was brought to the administration's attention, it was immediately corrected. |
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My sense (as a Burgundy parent who picked Burgundy over a "top three" school") is that there is a lot of self-selection in terms of who ends up at Burgundy. Most Burgundy families had plenty of viable school choices, including good public schools and good private schools. They choose Burgundy because they value the educational approach and like the school community. Of course it's not for everyone.
A child-- or, perhaps more commonly, a parent-- who needs constant reassurance that they're succeeding and beating their peers will not be happy at Burgundy, which deemphasizes competition, grade and standardized tests. If you're someone who feels anxious without constant numerical markers of status and position, go somewhere else. You have to have a good deal of confidence in your child and yourself for the Burgundy approach not to freak you out. |
Anonymous
Meh, it was probably someone who just doesn't know the area well and that they were both on in the same and went by what the student or parent reported on the form. |