Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I get the logic for avoiding Ws if you’re confident your child will achieve and college outcomes are your long game. But there’s something to be said for the benefits of a higher achieving cohort that is generally engaged, academically inclined, and invested in education. I’d love for my kid to attend a great college. But more than that I’d like a high school experience that looks like what someone gets at Wootton or Churchill and I am happy to play the college games that come with it. The choice, if you are lucky enough to have one, is not attend DCPS or private and go to an Ivy or attend Wootton and go to Towson. Thats way overly simplified and reflects status panic…not really in a teen’s holistic best interest if you ask me.
I agree with this completely. We are a Wootton family who like many in the area could afford private but chose against it. Experience the true high school life in a large tough environment. Feel what it feels like to not be the smartest most high achieving but yet not the kid who is vaping in the bathroom or involved in a fight. These are all life lessons that those scooting away to private school will not be able to have. I know many will kill me for saying this but I am glad my kids are seeing the real world and not in a private school.
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