Is Maret considered a "pressure cooker" school?

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Anonymous wrote:To OP, there isn't a private high school that isn't a pressure cooker to some degree. Similarly, for the kids on the college track, there isn't a public school that isn't, either.

This isn't true. Maret has quite the reputation. My friend is pulling her son out for high school. He's been there since K. She doesn't like what they do to boys. He's attending another private next year.

Is he in 8th grade now?

He's in 8th grade. She wants him to have a fun and interesting high school experience and not just one where he's studying 24/7. She's starting to wonder whether the mental price is worth it. So what if he gets into a great college, he can do that from another school where he is having some fun. Apparently, Maret has tough grading which means your kid's GPA may not be as good as if they were at another school. When applying to college, who cares that it was Maret when her kid can go to another private and his grades actually reflect his effort, not some crazy grading curve.

Is she talking about non-weighted GPA's? most DC Privates have unweighted GPA's and the colleges know this. Has no-one explained this to her?

[Anonymous]

Yes, Maret is a pressure cooker in HS.

That said, I think this is mostly due to insane parents. The teachers are great. But put a lot of overachieving kids in the same place, add a dollop in helicopter parenting, and you get a pressure cooker.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's ridiculous that Maret was founded as a French school, but doesn't teach French anymore in the younger grades.

In today's market a DC Private can consider itself doing well if it has managed to evolve its mission to meet the demands of local parents.

Those schools that have not, have closed

Not true, French is optional and offered in the after school program.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it's ridiculous that Maret was founded as a French school, but doesn't teach French anymore in the younger grades.

In today's market a DC Private can consider itself doing well if it has managed to evolve its mission to meet the demands of local parents.

Those schools that have not, have closed

Not true, French is optional and offered in the after school program.

According to the website, it's offered in middle school. . From the tour I understand that you can't enter in 7th and take French, because they start in 6th and don't have the bandwidth to teach beginning and second-year French in 7th grade.

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It's offered as a regular class in middle school and as an after school club twice a week in the lower school