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St. Andrews vs. STA for high school?
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Anonymous
Pedagogical experts don’t rank schools according to stale stereotypes of success reinforced over whiskey at the Chevy Chase country club. The best school is the one that serves the learning styles, happiness and personal growth of individual students the best. I.e. it is not always the same. |
Anonymous
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Whoever is trolling this thread is doing a lot of free publicity.
"Any press is good press" if it gets people to Google/visit/or apply to a school. Particularly helpful because the person trolling is doing everything possible to make people disinterested in sharing space with them by being as obnoxious as possible. |
Anonymous
They are very different communities and yes STA has a very very strong Chevy contingent many board members belong there as well and yes it does influence the social life of kids and parents. Just ask anyone about the Christmas dance. |
Anonymous
Experts rank outcomes and one school has better outcomes than the other. No one drinks whiskey and discusses schools at CCC, and anyone in the know would know that, they drink aged Manhattans at the Metropolitan Club and scoff at the anti-rigor brigade. |
Anonymous
+1 agree very different communities and they may not appeal to all |
Anonymous
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Notable SAES parents - Sportsjunky Eric Bickel and wife.
Notable STA parents - Cass Sunstein and Samantha Power. |
Anonymous
What is the Christmas dance? |
Anonymous
You clearly are not an educator and know many people at CC. It is definitely status minded in unhealthy ways. If you want to buy into ignorant rigid hierarchies of schools that are not focussed on the well being of individual students, it is on you . |
Anonymous
They ARE focused on outcomes, and individuals, and getting things done right per their students, hence the superior ranking. Your assumption that they are not and that their position is stale or rigid or what have you is YOUR mistake. Your appeal to authority and not to facts is also on you. Shame for an “educator” (do you have an advanced degree in ed admin too?) to focus on the wrong things. |
Anonymous
If you have to ask your kid will not get into it. |
Anonymous
Indeed. But what is it? |
Anonymous
DP. It is a very large dance for students in December at Chevy Chase Club and a committee oversees the guest list of who is invited and admitted. More than half of the committee this year was STA parents and several were board members. This is something you would never experience at St. Andrew’s so trying to give an example of how the parent communities are very different. |
Anonymous
Oh puhleeze I know drug addicts who graduated from StA because mommy and daddy were above the fray. Of course, there will be bright high achieving students there as well. Schools do not have the same outcomes for all students. My gifted DD was very well served at SAES. She is now at a highly elite school in a rarified field excelling at the highest levels. She was a national champion in her chosen sport. One of the things I am proudest of is that she is a kind, modest and well rounded person. SAES definitely cultivated those qualities. I don’t know where you get your negative stereotypes about SAES from apart from the country club. It is a rigorous and inclusive Episcopal school. SAES offers highly differentiated programs for gifted students but their mission is to embrace different kinds of learners in evidence-based ways. Obviously, StA is a great school with a storied history but the cathedral schools are not the best school for many bright and hard working students. Is SAES perfect? Of course not. Is it the best school for every student? Of course not. But it serves many talented students very well in ways that don’t cripple their emotional and psychological development. I have met lovely people from CC Club and St Albans but you are not a good ambassador for either of them: You come across as the epitome of a pompous twit - vainglorious, smug, and trying to elevate your fragile ego on the backs of children and youth who don’t fit your narrow mold for success. |
Anonymous
I am doing none of the things you are actually doing. I am defending the very, very hardworking students, staff and admin of STA from your presumptuous attacks. Your “mommy and daddy” crap, your “puhleeze” and your inability to recognize that there are numerous people responding to your bad takes and SAES plugging (much of it tongue in cheek, which you are also missing) make you and your school look bad. Do you really believe anyone bad mouths the school at CCC or any where else? Are you that insecure and remote to reality? |
Anonymous
Interesting? Who sponsors it. It’s not a CCC or STA thing. Must be a separate group with overlap. |