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Anonymous
| I would like to hear recommendations of middle and upper schools in the area known for having really nice, well-adjusted kids and parents. |
Anonymous
| For middle school CHDS seems to have really great kids! Well spoken, polite and very nice to each other. Unfortunately, they do not include high school. |
Anonymous
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I do not have a child at GDS but I have lived a block away from the building for many years. These seem to be the most pleasant, grounded kids ever. I often eavesdrop on them in Safeway, the coffeeshop, etc. (can't help it, we're a foot apart) and even when they think their conversations are private among friends .... they're still nice and laid back.
The girls I overhear -- esp. at that coffeeshop -- aren't even catty?! |
Anonymous
| Burgundy Farm Middle School--but there's no HS (though good placement for HS). |
Anonymous
| I had a relative who taught sports to CHD kids and she said they were the snottiest, rudest bunch of kids she had ever encoutered. |
Anonymous
| I think I actually understand and agree with the OP, despite the snark of the "well-educated" thread. OP probably, like me, wants to raise a good kid. If you send your child to school with a bunch of entitled and arrogant kids, your own child is going to find it hard not to pick those attitudes, no matter what you do at home. Some of that entitlement will rub off on your kid. |
Anonymous
Indeed, if the school to which you send your kids has an overwhelming number of entitled and arrogant kids. But I have found (with children in schools apparently famous on DCUM for entitlement and arrogance) that a good number of kids are nice. Down to earth parents, respectful kids. Not all of course, but a lot. So I question whether my kids are doomed to pick up those attitudes. I certainly don't see them headed that way. And the same entitled arrogant kids can populate some of the "nice kid"schools. Are they going to rub off on all the other students there too? Is it a majority that determines it? From my standpoint, the home is what determines what attitude a kid sports. As long as they get niceness at home (and have at least the choice of some friends who are nice), I have hopes that we're okay. |
Anonymous
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One of the reasons we chose our school was that the curriculum is not just the 3 R's. Social, emotional, moral (and religious) topics are covered and integrated into the curriculum. I don't know how someone can be well-educated without a moral (although not necessarily religious) foundation.
Like the PP, I'm not willing to have what I teach at home undermined at school. I want kindness, respect, moral reasoning and, yes, "niceness" modeled and reinforced at school along with academics. |
Anonymous
| I agree. One of the most wonderful things, in our minds, about the school our children attend is the appreciation and reinforcement our children receive for the kindness and good manners we teach them at home. It has been mentioned in every report card and conference we have had over the years. They way we look at it is thus: "most" of the children in this area are smart and advantaged and so, ergo, most will be sucessful in academics, college/grad school selections and their chosen profession(s). That is truly the easy part. The key piece to ensuring that their lives are equally sucessful and "rich" is to instill the values and morals that will teach them to care about others and the world around them. |
Anonymous
That must have been a really long time ago because the PE teachers have been at the school for longer than we've been there, which is 12 years at this point. Honestly I can't imagine any group of CHDS kids being either snotty or rude. It's not part of the school culture and it's really not the type of families who send their children to CHDS. Granted my experience is only the last 12 years, but I just don't see it at all. I am not the person who posted earlier about CHDS kids being nice kids, but I will second that they really are nice kids. |
Anonymous
| What is CHD?? |
Anonymous
| My experience has been that schools most often described as having "nice kids" are the schools where the kids were rejected everywhere else - sorry. If parents start off saying that the kids are nice (and not the school is great -we LOVE IT) consider 'nice" to be the codeword for second rate (but not public....). |
Anonymous
Yikes. I am guessing that you weren't a "nice kid". Harsh (and pretty snooty) comment. |
Anonymous
My thought, too. My daughter's at NCS. Rarely am I met with that's great she's at NCS. I always get "she must be a type A personality" or they pause and say, "oh." |
Anonymous
| So what do we make of GDS, 23:56 and :04? Hard to get into and full of nice teens. Hm. Hm. |