What’s Something About Your School You Would Have LOVED To Know Before Enrolling

[Anonymous]

I wish I knew the place closer to my house and 1/3 of the price had a more rigorous math program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For our HS - that the college counseling office will limit the number of colleges that you can apply to. That certain classes are restricted in class size because of "equipment" issues and your child won't get the electives they want because of that.

Students at public high schools don't always get into the electives of their choice, either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For our HS - that the college counseling office will limit the number of colleges that you can apply to. That certain classes are restricted in class size because of "equipment" issues and your child won't get the electives they want because of that.

Students at public high schools don't always get into the electives of their choice, either.

How is that relevant?

[Anonymous]

1) That the school has no honors English or History course offerings until 11th grade (despite having them for science and math).
2) That their general approach to math tracking is a year behind public school
3) that they were planning to get rid of AP courses. Don't buy it when these schools say it doesn't matter--it does--it makes your kid's job harder when having to explain/ justify come college application time
4) that they spend more $ and focus on DEI and emotional wellness activities than spend on addressing #1 and #2

[Anonymous]

That besides spelling, they wouldn’t learn anything more in elementary school than if I sent them to public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For our HS - that the college counseling office will limit the number of colleges that you can apply to. That certain classes are restricted in class size because of "equipment" issues and your child won't get the electives they want because of that.

Students at public high schools don't always get into the electives of their choice, either.

How is that relevant?

Expectation setting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wish I had known that there were so many vocal Trump supporting families and country club members.

Is this at Visi?

I have not seen this at Visi - how are families politically vocal at a HS anyway?

Bumper stickers in the carpool line.

Trump bumper stickers on cars at Visi should not be surprising to anyone. Isn't the profile of a typical Visi family conservative, successful, wealthy, country club, Catholic types, who are more likely than not to support Trump? And it shouldn't be problematic either. We live in a divided, but free, country, so people on both sides can and do support their candidate.

is there something bad about this that I am missing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wish I had known that there were so many vocal Trump supporting families and country club members.

Is this at Visi?

I have not seen this at Visi - how are families politically vocal at a HS anyway?

Bumper stickers in the carpool line.

Trump bumper stickers on cars at Visi should not be surprising to anyone. Isn't the profile of a typical Visi family conservative, successful, wealthy, country club, Catholic types, who are more likely than not to support Trump? And it shouldn't be problematic either. We live in a divided, but free, country, so people on both sides can and do support their candidate.

is there something bad about this that I am missing?

Noone said it was Visi actually.

But yes there is something wrong with supporting someone that goes against all Catholic values of being a decent human being. I am Catholic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That some of the really cool electives in the course catalogue aren't actually offered every year, or ever.

There's a secret menu of course options that you have to know to ask about because it isn't advertised anywhere (e.g. extra AP classes as independent study).

Just because the student handbook says there's always transportation provided for something, like having a bus for away games for a sports team or for practices that are off-campus, doesn't mean it actually is.

Which school is this?

Ireton

Can you talk more about the types of electives/courses that are actually not offered? And how do figure out the “secret APs.” We are looking at BI for next year!

[Anonymous]

I wish I'd know how ignorant the teachers at my private (and headmaster for that matter) were about neurodiverse students; how gossipy and downright nasty the women teachers were; that, as a result, everyone left the school on their own volition, but were mad. I wish I'd known about student (girl) cliques; I wish I'd known our headmaster would do nothing about the girl cliques even though my DW and I went to him with examples of the hurt our student was experiencing and examples of how other other privates dealt well with cliques - we gave him a year - he did nothing so we left, but DD was miserable; I wish I had known that teacher's own children could go through the school free, which led to the clique problem - a problem teacher's arrogant DD ("the rules don't apply to me") created. I saw this chikd act out in front of my DD who she deened "a freak"). I wish that I'd known that leftist teachers would be bigoted and judgmental against a moderately conservative family. I wish we had left the school before we got a particularly arrogant and maladjusted teacher whom no one like. I wish I had never picked that private. Anything, like our local xlnt publics woukd have been better. I wish I had my money back.

[Anonymous]

Interesting thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish I'd know how ignorant the teachers at my private (and headmaster for that matter) were about neurodiverse students; how gossipy and downright nasty the women teachers were; that, as a result, everyone left the school on their own volition, but were mad. I wish I'd known about student (girl) cliques; I wish I'd known our headmaster would do nothing about the girl cliques even though my DW and I went to him with examples of the hurt our student was experiencing and examples of how other other privates dealt well with cliques - we gave him a year - he did nothing so we left, but DD was miserable; I wish I had known that teacher's own children could go through the school free, which led to the clique problem - a problem teacher's arrogant DD ("the rules don't apply to me") created. I saw this chikd act out in front of my DD who she deened "a freak"). I wish that I'd known that leftist teachers would be bigoted and judgmental against a moderately conservative family. I wish we had left the school before we got a particularly arrogant and maladjusted teacher whom no one like. I wish I had never picked that private. Anything, like our local xlnt publics woukd have been better. I wish I had my money back.

Name and shame!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wish I had known that there were so many vocal Trump supporting families and country club members.

Is this at Visi?

I have not seen this at Visi - how are families politically vocal at a HS anyway?

Bumper stickers in the carpool line.

Trump bumper stickers on cars at Visi should not be surprising to anyone. Isn't the profile of a typical Visi family conservative, successful, wealthy, country club, Catholic types, who are more likely than not to support Trump? And it shouldn't be problematic either. We live in a divided, but free, country, so people on both sides can and do support their candidate.

is there something bad about this that I am missing?

Noone said it was Visi actually.

But yes there is something wrong with supporting someone that goes against all Catholic values of being a decent human being. I am Catholic.


+1 also Catholic. Trump is indefensible from a morality or values point of view. Yes, we (currently) are in a free country, so people on both sides can and do support their candidate. But you asked what was bad. Trump is bad, as in, convicted bad. As in, you can't let young children watch him on TV bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Wish I had known that there were so many vocal Trump supporting families and country club members.

Is this at Visi?

I have not seen this at Visi - how are families politically vocal at a HS anyway?

Bumper stickers in the carpool line.

Trump bumper stickers on cars at Visi should not be surprising to anyone. Isn't the profile of a typical Visi family conservative, successful, wealthy, country club, Catholic types, who are more likely than not to support Trump? And it shouldn't be problematic either. We live in a divided, but free, country, so people on both sides can and do support their candidate.

is there something bad about this that I am missing?

Well if you are catholic and paying to enroll your children in a catholic school you most likely believe in the tenets of the Catholicism. How does Trump in words and action meet these tenets? What is Christian nationalism? Do you believe Christ advocated nationalism? His beliefs and teachings were opposed of that.

[Anonymous]

Would have loved to connect with other parents who came from public school. I still don't feel like we've found them.