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When I see people applying to both Beauvoir and GDS. . .
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Anonymous
| I feel confused. These programs are so very different. Did you choose them because you are genuinely unsure if you prefer a progressive or traditional school? Or did perceived prestige play a role? |
Anonymous
| There are some children who would do well in many types of educational arenas. No school is perfect or ideal or will provide one's full laundry list of *wants*. There are appealing, yet not necessarily overlapping, aspects of both GDS and Beauvoir. |
Anonymous
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We didn't apply to Beauvoir and GDS, but we did apply to Potomac and GDS, which might seem similarly baffling to you. For us, it was because DC is academically several grade levels above age-level, and those were the only two schools who said they would individualize DC's program and subject-accelerate. So to an outsider, it may have seemed strange, but there was a good reason that had nothing to do with prestige.
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Anonymous
OP here. No, that doesn't seem strange to me; it makes sense. |
Anonymous
PP's explanation or the fact that PP applied to Potomac and GDS doesn't seem strange to you? |
Anonymous
| OP, could you please clarify with some examples what it is you consider "traditional" about Beauvoir's approach? Despite all the hype here about Beauvoir, my research into Beauvoir's approach leads me to view it as not-traditional, but rather individualized and child-centered (for many of same reasons that PP described). What exactly do you find traditional about it? I agree that the teachers and the kids dress more formally, and that the school's location under the Cathedral also seems to suggest a sort of "Dead Poet's Society" formality, but in terms of substance the school's curriculum/approach to learning does not seem "traditional" in the way I think of that term. Please help me understand what you're saying. |
Anonymous
| I'd bet donuts that OP meant hair bows vs. sweatpants. The curricula of GDS and Beauvoir are very similar in preK-3. |
Anonymous
That's what I thought too. But if the only difference is hairbows vs. sweatpants, then why would it seem surprising or confusing for someone to apply to both? My DD currently prefers sweatpants, but I assume she'll start wearing hairbows at some point, and then probably switch back to sweatpants, or maybe wear both at the same time. That sort of formal/informal difference between the schools is just not something that matters much to me, and I don't think it will matter much to DD, so I don't see why it should limit our choices. |
Anonymous
| that is hilarious...hairbows vs sweatpants but so so true. I can't stand seeing all these little white girls with hair bows the size of their hand clipped to one side! My DD prefers her long locks to be in a messy ponytail and wearing sweats. God forbid we choose Beauvoir instead of GDS...people would think we live in a trailor park (not that I personally think thats a bad thing) |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Is there a Big Bow counter-part with the Beauvoir Boys? |
Anonymous
Good grief, why would it bother you when girls wear hair bows?? Seriously, I just don't understand. DD wears hairbows and dresses but is just as smart, athletic, and kind as girls who prefer sweatpants and messy hair. I think your comment reflects much more poorly on you and your ill-conceived and inaccurate stereotypes than on the families of girls in bows. |
Anonymous
| My kid id the only one in her Beauvoir classroom who wears hairbows. So much for the stereotypes. |
Anonymous
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PP again: and to add, we are Obama voters, of modest means, and products of public schools--but DD is always in bows and dresses. So please keep your stereotypes to yourselves; thanks.
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Anonymous
I am this PP--to clarify, I meant that we were the 13:21 PP, not the one immediately preceding this post. We are not at Beauvoir. |