NCS going downhill?

[Anonymous]

19:34 here. PP, I just read 8:58 and 11:05, and those posts do not seem to me to be necessarily by school admin. Those posts could have been written by me. I have a son at STA, so I could write, and indeed have written, things like that on DCUM. An NCS parent or even STA parent could have written those. And, no, I am not school admin.

[Anonymous]

People are paranoid whack-jobs. This is a 7-page non-story. Every reasonable post or one that is calm/pleasant in tone is labelled propaganda. Whatevs.

[Anonymous]

Except that any time there is a thread on NCS and people post negatively someone ask if the poster even has a kid at the school. I think the school does monitor this site and post.

And yes they are going downhill but it obviously starts with admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People are paranoid whack-jobs. This is a 7-page non-story. Every reasonable post or one that is calm/pleasant in tone is labelled propaganda. Whatevs.

Amen to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Except that any time there is a thread on NCS and people post negatively someone ask if the poster even has a kid at the school. I think the school does monitor this site and post.

And yes they are going downhill but it obviously starts with admissions.

People ask if there's a kid at the school to try (futilely, on this ANONYMOUS site) to see if the person is just spouting off as a faux expert or has any personal basis. You, for example, strike me as someone who is talking out of her. . . er, I mean, talking through her hat.

[Anonymous]

Anyone who says a prep school is going downhill because of a bad year or two of college admissions has no perspective and no understanding of college admissions. Whack-jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've read this thread, and I can't tell who the alleged school admins are. What makes you think they are not just parents? For example, I am just a parent, and I don't have a connection to NCS, but I have done college interviewing and know something about matriculations, so I could write things that sound as if an insider wrote them, but that doesn't make me a school admin.

I am a PP who said that I don't think that someone should come on this forum, sling mud at identified individuals " the AD", " the Head of school" while hiding behind her anonymity. I also said that it sounds like a PP denigrating the school's college placement sounded like she was just mad about her daughter not getting in where she wanted her to go. I am not a teacher or an admin. at any school. I am a parent, but not with a child at NCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are paranoid whack-jobs. This is a 7-page non-story. Every reasonable post or one that is calm/pleasant in tone is labelled propaganda. Whatevs.

Amen to that.

I would take you more seriously if you could spell and if you didn't "talk" like a 15 year old. But, "whatevs."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:See 8:58 and 11:05.

Yes. Of course admin is reading this thread and posting for damage control.

Glad my DD is an alum and done with NCS. Her class' matriculation list was excellent overall. The upper school experience was horrible in dealing with admin and faculty. DD had positive academic experiences with a couple of faculty members during her upper school years, sadly many girls don't. Fortunately, she had extracurriculars away from NCS that really boosted her college apps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You realize people may have reasons for matriculating at "tier 3" schools? Maybe an athletic or other extracurricular opportunity, or perhaps a family member who is on staff (thus a reduction in tuition), or perhaps a special area of study/interest for the student?

The world should not be seen through ivy-colored glasses.

Wonderful post!

[Anonymous]

If the metric of going downhill is "IVY" college maticulation stats then every private school in the D,C, area is going downhill over the last decade -- including Sidwell, NCS, GDS, Maret and NCS. By the same metric some public schools are going uphill. DCUMMIES can't have it both ways. Decide what going downhill means? "Ivy" matriculation or great opportunities for small classes, extracurriculars like art, music, sports, language and writing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the metric of going downhill is "IVY" college maticulation stats then every private school in the D,C, area is going downhill over the last decade -- including Sidwell, NCS, GDS, Maret and NCS. By the same metric some public schools are going uphill. DCUMMIES can't have it both ways. Decide what going downhill means? "Ivy" matriculation or great opportunities for small classes, extracurriculars like art, music, sports, language and writing?

Despite this coming from the DCUMMIE poster, it actually makes sense. The exmissions scene is getting tougher -- there was a recent thread about Sidwell having a bad year, and there have been other threads about success at publics. But "downhill" is in the eye of the beholder and if a school continues to be a good match for your kid in any of so many ways that are unrelated to exmission, then it isn't going downhill at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are paranoid whack-jobs. This is a 7-page non-story. Every reasonable post or one that is calm/pleasant in tone is labelled propaganda. Whatevs.

Amen to that.

I would take you more seriously if you could spell and if you didn't "talk" like a 15 year old. But, "whatevs."

What was the spelling error?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:See 8:58 and 11:05.

Yes. Of course admin is reading this thread and posting for damage control.

Glad my DD is an alum and done with NCS. Her class' matriculation list was excellent overall. The upper school experience was horrible in dealing with admin and faculty. DD had positive academic experiences with a couple of faculty members during her upper school years, sadly many girls don't. Fortunately, she had extracurriculars away from NCS that really boosted her college apps.

Oh, okay, now that you've weighed in -- you settled things "of course.".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are paranoid whack-jobs. This is a 7-page non-story. Every reasonable post or one that is calm/pleasant in tone is labelled propaganda. Whatevs.

Amen to that.

I would take you more seriously if you could spell and if you didn't "talk" like a 15 year old. But, "whatevs."

What was the spelling error?

I too was interested in the question. The red pen wielding poster bolded the phrase "labelled propaganda" to try to call attention to the spelling error (and then used "whatevs" to signal her scorn for that slangy expression). It appears, however, that the spelling of "labelled" is an acceptable variant, used more often in the Commonwealth countries.

So, was the original poster a 15 year old Brit? Possible, although it would have been more likely that we would have seen a phrase like "paranoid muppet" instead of "paranoid whack-job." Perhaps a well-read adult who also rubs elbows with teenagers and thus used youthful slang for effect. Wait . . . all clues point to the NCS Head of School, since apparently the NCS admin use their 3-day weekends to scour DCUM and post propaganda in response. We've solved the mystery!