Reply to St. Andrew's mainstream or seen as good place for slight LDs?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "St. Andrew's mainstream or seen as good place for slight LDs?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]It is not a school for LD.  As an alum of SAES, I can tell you that the vast majority of students do not have LD and I was among them.  I am a private school parent now and having toured many schools, the majority of schools today expect to accommodate some level of learning issues because it is much better diagnosed today and because it is known that there are many bright kids who have mild learning issues.  More teachers are trained in how to help mild LD.   In fact, to say it the other way, I cannot think of a single school that we visited (here in DC) that didn't provide assistance to some level of LD.  We do not live near SAES now otherwise it is where I would have wanted to send both of my kids and both are not-LD and according to their WISCs are gifted.

So yes, you will find some LD kids at St. Andrew's as you will almost anywhere.  But for more challenging issues, St. Andrew's will not be the best place and doesn't try to be.

It is more traditional than Field or Burke and thus attracts more traditional children and families. That said, it has an incredible arts program.  It has good sports but does not have football.  Football is a size driver because schools need more kids to field a football team.  St. Andrew's keeps its high school classes to about 75.  That is not big enough to field football and soccer. But it was plenty big enough for a decent social scene. It has fantastic teachers, many of whom have been there since the 1980s and 1990s.

I think of it is a liberal version of the Cathedral Close schools. It is Episcopal like those schools but it is Co-ed, mostly no uniform and generally less aggressively competitive.   It has always enrolled the children of elite families but flew under the radar because, being only 40 years old, had less cache.  For years, it was the Episcopal high school option for families who lived in Maryland or McLean/Great Falls and did not want to deal with driving into DC.

I cannot speak highly enough of the school and as I toured schools for my children, I knew I was comparing the schools to SAES.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics