Holy Trinity in Georgetown_how is their curriculum?

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Anonymous wrote:Information doesn’t have to be embarrassing for it to be unacceptable to have it shared without permission. My child has a learning difference. We are not embarrassed about it and very forthcoming with schools, but if we were on a tour and someone said “and if your child has dyslexia like this woman’s does, here’s what we offer” I would be *livid*.

Thank you. This is similar of what happened. It was my a learning difference, but something on the line of: financial aid, redshirting, repeating a year, etc.

So it was about redshirting — which is a ridiculous thing to hire, does your kid lie about their birthday. No one who goes to famous preschools is applying to financial aid. And the topics of repeating year is so rare to never come up. So an innocent mistake that, not about learning disability or your finances, and you are on a vendetta.

It actually wasn’t redshirting, but something similar to those examples I quoted. Look, this was my experience and that’s it. I would never send my kids there, but I am glad you/your kids are happy there. My understand is that the academics are good. HTS is just not the place for my kids as I am sure Sidwell/BVR is not the place for yours.

You examples are nonsensical, redshirting would not be considered sensitive, while financial aid would be.

Did you expressly ask for confidentiality?

Sure it’s a tiny playground for a tiny school. But comparing $42k BVR to $16k (parishioners) tuition is just bad form.

Trash talking a small catholic school from you $$$ fancy preschool pedigree is just poor form.

Ok whatever. This was MY experience. HTS was on our list and had the admission lady not done what she did, we would have considered it (if admitted). It wasn’t our top choice, but lower tuition would have been great (especially since I have 3 kids). I also believe in the importance of academics and I went to a Jesuit university. The disregard the admission person showed us was not only embarrassing, but made me realize that the culture difference from the schools I was used to for my kids was just too big.
I would have preferred the cheaper tuition if the only difference were the playground.

I thought you said you aren’t even sure your current school sent the teacher recs. How could you have been waitlisted/admitted when you told your school to take HTS off your list?

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Why are you people attacking her? An admissions person should never share any details about your child or family with a group of prospective parents without your express permission. It honestly doesn’t matter how sensitive or embarrassing anyone else thinks it is. It’s just inappropriate, and very off-putting. Fine, maybe the admin person slipped up. People make mistakes. It doesn’t mean it’s not a good school or not right for your kid, but it was enough of a negative experience to rightly put her off the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Information doesn’t have to be embarrassing for it to be unacceptable to have it shared without permission. My child has a learning difference. We are not embarrassed about it and very forthcoming with schools, but if we were on a tour and someone said “and if your child has dyslexia like this woman’s does, here’s what we offer” I would be *livid*.

Thank you. This is similar of what happened. It was my a learning difference, but something on the line of: financial aid, redshirting, repeating a year, etc.

So it was about redshirting — which is a ridiculous thing to hire, does your kid lie about their birthday. No one who goes to famous preschools is applying to financial aid. And the topics of repeating year is so rare to never come up. So an innocent mistake that, not about learning disability or your finances, and you are on a vendetta.

It actually wasn’t redshirting, but something similar to those examples I quoted. Look, this was my experience and that’s it. I would never send my kids there, but I am glad you/your kids are happy there. My understand is that the academics are good. HTS is just not the place for my kids as I am sure Sidwell/BVR is not the place for yours.

You examples are nonsensical, redshirting would not be considered sensitive, while financial aid would be.

Did you expressly ask for confidentiality?

Sure it’s a tiny playground for a tiny school. But comparing $42k BVR to $16k (parishioners) tuition is just bad form.

Trash talking a small catholic school from you $$$ fancy preschool pedigree is just poor form.

Ok whatever. This was MY experience. HTS was on our list and had the admission lady not done what she did, we would have considered it (if admitted). It wasn’t our top choice, but lower tuition would have been great (especially since I have 3 kids). I also believe in the importance of academics and I went to a Jesuit university. The disregard the admission person showed us was not only embarrassing, but made me realize that the culture difference from the schools I was used to for my kids was just too big.
I would have preferred the cheaper tuition if the only difference were the playground.

I thought you said you aren’t even sure your current school sent the teacher recs. How could you have been waitlisted/admitted when you told your school to take HTS off your list?

Because I applied and sent all documentation before this specific school visit. My kid had done the play date and I had already met with AD (tall lady… it was a long time ago and I believe she was AD or assistant AD). I have no idea when the teachers send the letter of recommendations. Again, it was a while back so I don’t recall the details. I have 3 kids and have applied to a few schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you people attacking her? An admissions person should never share any details about your child or family with a group of prospective parents without your express permission. It honestly doesn’t matter how sensitive or embarrassing anyone else thinks it is. It’s just inappropriate, and very off-putting. Fine, maybe the admin person slipped up. People make mistakes. It doesn’t mean it’s not a good school or not right for your kid, but it was enough of a negative experience to rightly put her off the school.

Thank you. My whole point. I am sure it’s a good school (and I have no way to judge since I have never had a kid attending). All I said was that I dislike the school based on my experience. I am sure not everyone has experiences like mine there.

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Anonymous wrote:Why are you people attacking her? An admissions person should never share any details about your child or family with a group of prospective parents without your express permission. It honestly doesn’t matter how sensitive or embarrassing anyone else thinks it is. It’s just inappropriate, and very off-putting. Fine, maybe the admin person slipped up. People make mistakes. It doesn’t mean it’s not a good school or not right for your kid, but it was enough of a negative experience to rightly put her off the school.

Thank you. My whole point. I am sure it’s a good school (and I have no way to judge since I have never had a kid attending). All I said was that I dislike the school based on my experience. I am sure not everyone has experiences like mine there.

And I mentioned my experience because multiple people asked at the beginning of the thread. I don’t think my experience has anything to do with academics which was the OP main topic.

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Anonymous wrote:anyone that actually gets offered a spot at HTS should consider themselves lucky. HTS was our #1 but it was not in the way of things for DC. luckily we had a back up plan.

Why? Because of the academics?

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Where do kids go after Holy Trinity?

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Public, Visi, Gonzaga and other Catholic schools

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Anonymous wrote:anyone that actually gets offered a spot at HTS should consider themselves lucky. HTS was our #1 but it was not in the way of things for DC. luckily we had a back up plan.

Why? Because of the academics?

because my experience is that it is very hard to be offered a spot

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Op just list your question in next door for actual HT parents to answer

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Anonymous wrote:Heard that their K and 1 grade are really weak. Kids have to get tutors because they are so behind.
How is this possible?

K is definitely not weak. Not sure where you are getting your information. My daughter is in K and I am a secondary Principal at another area school. I know my curriculum. My daughter is reading on pace and they use Eureka for math, which is what most high-performing schools in the area uses. She also LOVES the school, which is so important!

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What schools do Holy Trinity feed into?

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Anonymous wrote:What schools do Holy Trinity feed into?

The DC area does not have real "feeders" (except the Cathedral schools, but they are within the Close together). People tend to apply widely and have many choices.

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I think the school gets negative attention because of some notorious “society moms” and a cliquey contingent from VA.

I haven’t heard anything bad about the academics; most parents seem very happy with the teachers. As with many Catholics schools the class sizes and facilities aren’t amazing, but the cost reflects that. I do think the well-liked principal may be leaving and not sure how the replacement process work v true independent schools

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think anyone was looking at Holy Trinity because of academic rigor in the first place. There are many other strengths of the school that you won't find elsewhere, though! Including a strong faith-based education, community, and a focus on social justice. That's why we are there. If we were looking for the most academically rigorous school, we would have gone elsewhere.

I do think people attend for strong academics and parents expect academic rigor. Jesuits are known for being excellent educators.

Exactly

There are no Jesuits teaching there. It is a nice school for nice, average kids.

You are so wrong! Strong math, strong science, excellent teachers. Children matriculate to top private And Catholic schools. Excellent academics, leadership, community. Our experience was beautiful