Bullis

[Anonymous]

I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.

[Anonymous]

Well said 10:14, and you give hope to those of us who refuse to demean others just to make our schools look better. All schools offer something, the trick is to match the school to your child. Happy that yours was the right choice for your kids!

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.[/quote]

Were your kids there when Farquhar was still the HOS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:its good counsel with a $36K price tag

Yes, I totally agree!!

[Anonymous]

The schhool has changed significantly under the new headmaster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The schhool has changed significantly under the new headmaster.

In what ways?

[Anonymous]

You have to take the school-trashing by people on DCUM with a grain of salt, just as you have to approach the Goldilocks sentiments some have about their favorite schools with a certain amount of skepticism. We liked Bullis enough to apply to it for one of our children, but there was another school we liked a little better and we ended up sending her there. Although we love the school we chose, we constantly think about whether we made the right decision for various reasons. Bullis may see us again some day, either for her if things do not work out where she is, or for our other children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schhool has changed significantly under the new headmaster.

In what ways?

Lots of recruiting especially for football, basketball and lacrosse. Willing to take junior and senior transfers. Adding students form China as boarding students.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The schhool has changed significantly under the new headmaster.

In what ways?

Lots of recruiting especially for football, basketball and lacrosse. Willing to take junior and senior transfers. Adding students form China as boarding students.

And now the rest of the school is unable to learn English, foreign languages, math, science and history. Oh wait....

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.[/quote]

Yet your post does in fact badmouth other schools. Your sanctimony is over-the-top and not backed up by your words.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.[/quote]

Yet your post does in fact badmouth other schools. Your sanctimony is over-the-top and not backed up by your words.[/quote]

How does it badmouth other schools? He just says that there were kinds of schools he didn't want for his kids, not that there is anything wrong with religious, single-sex, or whatever other kinds of schools. I actually thought this was quite a nice post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.

Yet your post does in fact badmouth other schools. Your sanctimony is over-the-top and not backed up by your words.

How does it badmouth other schools? He just says that there were kinds of schools he didn't want for his kids, not that there is anything wrong with religious, single-sex, or whatever other kinds of schools. I actually thought this was quite a nice post.

It's a mix of passive aggressive and snotty, I think. Send your kid to a religious school? Just so you can outsource religion, apparently. Calling teachers by their first name? Ye olde shotte at GDS. "Cramped" facilities? LOL, makes it sound like other schools are gerbil cages.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.

Yet your post does in fact badmouth other schools. Your sanctimony is over-the-top and not backed up by your words.

How does it badmouth other schools? He just says that there were kinds of schools he didn't want for his kids, not that there is anything wrong with religious, single-sex, or whatever other kinds of schools. I actually thought this was quite a nice post.

It's a mix of passive aggressive and snotty, I think. Send your kid to a religious school? Just so you can outsource religion, apparently. Calling teachers by their first name? Ye olde shotte at GDS. "Cramped" facilities? LOL, makes it sound like other schools are gerbil cages.

Oh, and the Ivy League references in the first line. Blech.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.

Yet your post does in fact badmouth other schools. Your sanctimony is over-the-top and not backed up by your words.

How does it badmouth other schools? He just says that there were kinds of schools he didn't want for his kids, not that there is anything wrong with religious, single-sex, or whatever other kinds of schools. I actually thought this was quite a nice post.

It's a mix of passive aggressive and snotty, I think. Send your kid to a religious school? Just so you can outsource religion, apparently. Calling teachers by their first name? Ye olde shotte at GDS. "Cramped" facilities? LOL, makes it sound like other schools are gerbil cages.

Oh, and the Ivy League references in the first line. Blech.

Seems like you're reading an awful lot into things that aren't there. It wasn't passive aggressive or badmouthing, it was a list of things that they did not want in a school, not a list of things that are inherently bad and no schools should be like that. And I read the Ivy League line as indicating that Bullis grads aren't just middle of the road students who go to middling colleges, like some other posts have insinuated.

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Anonymous wrote:I am the father of two recent Bullis graduates. We live in Northwest DC. Both of our children attended or attend Ivy League schools. The nastiness about Bullis on DCUM, to my mind, says a great deal more about people whose children attend other high schools in this area than it does about Bullis. Bullis was for us, and is today, a wonderful school, with a beautiful 102 acre campus, excellent academics, excellent facilities, nice, respectul kids, a broad range of students, dedicated faculty and staff, and a wonderful parent community. We didn't want a single sex school. We didn't want a religious school (we viewed that as our job). We didn't want a school where children call teachers by their first names. We didn't want a school with cramped, outdated facilities. We wanted a coed school that was small enough to give individual attention, where the focus wasn't constantly on who was up and who was down, which had a nice mix of progressive and traditional and that provided a balanced academic, athletic and artistic education. Our children got all of those things and much more at Bullis. Our children went off to excellent schools, well-prepared, confident, happy and secure. College counseling and indeed advising at every level at Bullis is superb. Our children are thriving and I attribute much of their success to the kind of education they received at Bullis. Unlike so many people on DCUM, I am not going to bad mouth other schools and I think you will find that to be a trait among Bullis people on this board. They don't go around making nasty comments about other schools. Bullis was the absolute right fit for our children.They ended up at great schools and they are happy. I consider that a job well done. So, I would urge anyone reading this and considering a school for your student to browse the Bullis website, take a tour, talk to Bullis families and make up your own mind. Bullis was wonderful for our children and I hope it can be for yours as well. Good luck in your search.

Yet your post does in fact badmouth other schools. Your sanctimony is over-the-top and not backed up by your words.

How does it badmouth other schools? He just says that there were kinds of schools he didn't want for his kids, not that there is anything wrong with religious, single-sex, or whatever other kinds of schools. I actually thought this was quite a nice post.

It's a mix of passive aggressive and snotty, I think. Send your kid to a religious school? Just so you can outsource religion, apparently. Calling teachers by their first name? Ye olde shotte at GDS. "Cramped" facilities? LOL, makes it sound like other schools are gerbil cages.

Oh, and the Ivy League references in the first line. Blech.

Seems like you're reading an awful lot into things that aren't there. It wasn't passive aggressive or badmouthing, it was a list of things that they did not want in a school, not a list of things that are inherently bad and no schools should be like that. And I read the Ivy League line as indicating that Bullis grads aren't just middle of the road students who go to middling colleges, like some other posts have insinuated.

People take unfair shots at Bullis, and the defense was largely positive. But I too did think it came off as holier-than-thou and negative in other places.