Maret or GDS

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Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.

LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.

This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.

Seems like it would be harder at a small school like Maret. There isn’t anywhere to go if you don’t fit in the school mold.

All of DC areas private schools are fishbowl size. 80-140 person classes, and way smaller in earlier years

Except at John’s, they can field a decent team or club in anything. 250 a class.

As for fit, a few schools are non stop about their non-academic mission and grooming. Maret is not one of them, in fact a couple progressives make other progressives look traditional.

They are teaching a class on microaggressions this year.

Excellent, a mandatory class on white privilege microaggression? How woke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.

LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.

This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.

Seems like it would be harder at a small school like Maret. There isn’t anywhere to go if you don’t fit in the school mold.

All of DC areas private schools are fishbowl size. 80-140 person classes, and way smaller in earlier years

Except at John’s, they can field a decent team or club in anything. 250 a class.

As for fit, a few schools are non stop about their non-academic mission and grooming. Maret is not one of them, in fact a couple progressives make other progressives look traditional.

They are teaching a class on microaggressions this year.

Gds always had a small compact footprint and no land; now it has two, next to each other.

[Anonymous]

I'd say Maret is smaller, but its probably more stable right now in terms of its strategic plan, mission, leadership. The only down is that by HS your kid's social options at school are almost as small as they were on Little House on the Prairie

Sidwell, on the other hand- imho- is in free fall . The Post- Obama era has hit and the jumping ship has begun. For example, the Assoc HOS for Advancement job has just been posted

In 2010 that role at Sidwell was the most coveted Private School job in DC

[Anonymous]

GDS has consolidated its campus and Maret appears to be expanding to a second campus?

Anyone want to share the plans for Chevy Chase?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd say Maret is smaller, but its probably more stable right now in terms of its strategic plan, mission, leadership. The only down is that by HS your kid's social options at school are almost as small as they were on Little House on the Prairie

Sidwell, on the other hand- imho- is in free fall . The Post- Obama era has hit and the jumping ship has begun. For example, the Assoc HOS for Advancement job has just been posted

In 2010 that role at Sidwell was the most coveted Private School job in DC

Why does a job opening and school's choice to make a formal search the sign of a freefall? Turnover in jobs happen all the time in all slices of life - I'd rather the school be looking for the best candidate possible than just promoting from within.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:GDS has consolidated its campus and Maret appears to be expanding to a second campus?

Anyone want to share the plans for Chevy Chase?

Where are you getting the Maret info? They’ve built their entire identity around being small and on the Woodley grounds. I don’t see them changing that unless a new head comes in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.

LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.

This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.

Seems like it would be harder at a small school like Maret. There isn’t anywhere to go if you don’t fit in the school mold.

All of DC areas private schools are fishbowl size. 80-140 person classes, and way smaller in earlier years

Except at John’s, they can field a decent team or club in anything. 250 a class.

As for fit, a few schools are non stop about their non-academic mission and grooming. Maret is not one of them, in fact a couple progressives make other progressives look traditional.

They are teaching a class on microaggressions this year.

Excellent, a mandatory class on white privilege microaggression? How woke.

You, my dear, are sadly un-woke.

[Anonymous]

Maret is not expanding its campus. They are in the process of securing the rights to rent some field space in Chevy Chase for after-school sports teams. There will be no satellite campus.

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Oh! Good idea! Where in Chevy Chase?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GDS has consolidated its campus and Maret appears to be expanding to a second campus?

Anyone want to share the plans for Chevy Chase?

Where are you getting the Maret info? They’ve built their entire identity around being small and on the Woodley grounds. I don’t see them changing that unless a new head comes in.

They seem to be taking over the campus at the campus at Utah and Nebraska.

[Anonymous]

Oh that’s a great field space. But moving classes there, maybe not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh that’s a great field space. But moving classes there, maybe not.

Agree- they’ll take field space wherever but the academic campus ain’t moving as long as the current regime is in charge.

[Anonymous]

Maret, it’s not a constant hot mess like GDS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maret, it’s not a constant hot mess like GDS.

+1

[Anonymous]

The more we stick around, the more apparent is that each school (beyond the two in this thread) is a hot mess in its own way. No perfect school out there.