Was Stone Ridge everything you hoped it would be for your high school daughter?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

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Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

Not at Whitman, where my daughter goes. It's wonderful. I've never heard of the other stuff happening. And she's so much more happy, and functional as well. I think the environment at Stone Ridge was giving her low grade depression.

Right, no one at Whitman is having sex in the bathrooms, doing drugs or fighting. Denial. Besides, Whitman is filled with mean girls esp ‘24. Your daughter probably couldn’t hack it at SR.

Exactly. My DD didn’t think think SR was Disneyland, but to say the same stiff isn’t happening at also every HS is naive and ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

+1

Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

Not at Whitman, where my daughter goes. It's wonderful. I've never heard of the other stuff happening. And she's so much more happy, and functional as well. I think the environment at Stone Ridge was giving her low grade depression.

Right, no one at Whitman is having sex in the bathrooms, doing drugs or fighting. Denial. Besides, Whitman is filled with mean girls esp ‘24. Your daughter probably couldn’t hack it at SR.

Exactly. My DD didn’t think think SR was Disneyland, but to say the same stiff isn’t happening at also every HS is naive and ridiculous.

But to act like the SAME exact dynamic happens at every school is also ridiculous. Some schools are better than others, some school have environments or attract people that seem to be worse than other. Stone Ridge has a reputation for the bullying issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it, but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Oh no! They were looking for anti-racist teachers? No thanks - I’ll send my daughter to school with pro-racist teachers like our forefathers intended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it, but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Oh no! They were looking for anti-racist teachers? No thanks - I’ll send my daughter to school with pro-racist teachers like our forefathers intended.

The true character of the SR parents reveals itself late in the evening after the Chardonnay has kicked in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it, but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Oh no! They were looking for anti-racist teachers? No thanks - I’ll send my daughter to school with pro-racist teachers like our forefathers intended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody is saying the school taught it, but faculty were required to read Kendi's book, and the school was all about being an "anti-racist institution" for a hot minute. All the employment announcements stated they were searching for "an anti-racist educator". They got older white teachers to make videos about how they realized they had white privilege.

Most of this seems to have evaporated.

Oh no! They were looking for anti-racist teachers? No thanks - I’ll send my daughter to school with pro-racist teachers like our forefathers intended.

The true character of the SR parents reveals itself late in the evening after the Chardonnay has kicked in.

you realize these posters are not SR parents, right? They're just posing to cause trouble. If you want to know what a SR parent or child, or a MCPS parent or child, is like, go talk to them, for real, in person.

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Anonymous wrote:Your DD’s chance of being in a knife fight in MCPS? Extremely low. Chance of dealing with SR mean girls on a daily basis? 100 percent!

+1

Exactly. MCPS schools were so much better for our family. No more coming home in tears

Except she isn't learning much these days.

There have been 3 stabbing shots at MCPS schools in the last 6 weeks. Fights, gang activity, sex in the bathrooms, lack of teachers, grade inflation and 1.5 years of distance learning.

Not at Whitman, where my daughter goes. It's wonderful. I've never heard of the other stuff happening. And she's so much more happy, and functional as well. I think the environment at Stone Ridge was giving her low grade depression.

Right, no one at Whitman is having sex in the bathrooms, doing drugs or fighting. Denial. Besides, Whitman is filled with mean girls esp ‘24. Your daughter probably couldn’t hack it at SR.

Exactly. My DD didn’t think think SR was Disneyland, but to say the same stiff isn’t happening at also every HS is naive and ridiculous.

But to act like the SAME exact dynamic happens at every school is also ridiculous. Some schools are better than others, some school have environments or attract people that seem to be worse than other. Stone Ridge has a reputation for the bullying issue.

Hold up, SR is a majority white UMC demographic. UMC white parents are raising little white Beckys to be bullies? Oh my!

Anyway, I asked my DD daughter about this and she said it seemed like regular queen bee behavior to her and this seemed to be a middle school issue. Being transparent, my DD is POC and fairly assertive, so that bullying wouldn't fly with her or her crew. She also would now allow any bullying to occur in her presence. She did admit that it was very clique in the upper school.

[Anonymous]

Stone Ridge is the worst school ever. Most girls are burnt out by 12th grade and only a few are able to keep pushing themselves through college. It has strong levels of bullying and eating disorders. They have also tried to cover up a lot of the bad backlash they had from DEI movement they were pushing. You could not pay me to send my daughter there.

[Anonymous]

I attended Stone Ridge and did not like it. The teachers are not all that supportive and the girls can be cruel. The families are clique, and for no good reason. I feel like I worked so hard that by time I went to college I needed a break. There are much better schools in the area that do not foster a pressure cooker learning experience. I would never send my daughter there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I attended Stone Ridge and did not like it. The teachers are not all that supportive and the girls can be cruel. The families are clique, and for no good reason. I feel like I worked so hard that by time I went to college I needed a break. There are much better schools in the area that do not foster a pressure cooker learning experience. I would never send my daughter there.

DD went there for her freshman year and ended up transferring to another Catholic girls school. She was (is) a good student but we quickly found that the teachers had their favorites starting with star athletes. Family money also talked. Meanwhile there was a shortage of seating in assemblies and the lunchroom and, yes, the girls can be cruel. Very cliquish. We knew by the holidays that we had to go elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I attended Stone Ridge and did not like it. The teachers are not all that supportive and the girls can be cruel. The families are clique, and for no good reason. I feel like I worked so hard that by time I went to college I needed a break. There are much better schools in the area that do not foster a pressure cooker learning experience. I would never send my daughter there.

Knowing this all now and also maybe knowing the circumstances in other schools at that same time, where would you think would have been a better place for you and why? Also, a little background on yourself would be useful - did you play any sports? what clubs/activities/EC were you involved in? What classes/subjects did you like/not like?

[Anonymous]

This is an old thread. Why the sudden urge to bash SR, which has been getting wonderful reviews on this forum. I have been reading that compared to other top all girls schools, SR is less of a pressure cooker, but with wonderful college admission outcomes. Best of both worlds. My daughter is not experiencing any of the issues in the last few posts and is thriving in the SR upper school.

[Anonymous]

Obviously someone has an axe to grind and brought up an old thread. And I would imagine troll and/or sock puppet going on.

SR is an amazing school where girls thrive and are challenged academically. It is rigorous and the girls are more than ready for college. My girls made lifelong friends and wound up at top schools. They did not play lacrosse and were not lifers (came in 9th) and made lifelong friends. People considering SR should come to their own conclusions and talk to parents or students who actually went to the school.....don't rely on an anonymous message board for advice.

[Anonymous]

There are two trolls who resurface periodically to bash SR on this website. From what I can tell, one of them is doing 50% of the posts here. They give themselves away with simplistic writing, and rehashing the same talking points about mean girls, race, and being a "pressure cooker." The other one repeats the same points about SR not being truly Catholic, being out of line with the Archdiocese, and it being too liberal. The funny thing is, the real SR (I am a parent of a `24) is "just right." It's traditional but at the same time liberal. We get grief from both sides, which is just how we like it. SR does ask a lot of girls--but guess what, they are well prepared to leave the nest. And yes, SR struggles to balance progressivism and staying true to Catholicism. This struggle sometimes shows up in imperfection. I'd rather have that than pretending everything is perfect for the sake of image.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are two trolls who resurface periodically to bash SR on this website. From what I can tell, one of them is doing 50% of the posts here. They give themselves away with simplistic writing, and rehashing the same talking points about mean girls, race, and being a "pressure cooker." The other one repeats the same points about SR not being truly Catholic, being out of line with the Archdiocese, and it being too liberal. The funny thing is, the real SR (I am a parent of a `24) is "just right." It's traditional but at the same time liberal. We get grief from both sides, which is just how we like it. SR does ask a lot of girls--but guess what, they are well prepared to leave the nest. And yes, SR struggles to balance progressivism and staying true to Catholicism. This struggle sometimes shows up in imperfection. I'd rather have that than pretending everything is perfect for the sake of image.

This is great. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.