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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could a kid come of out Stuart prepared to handle private school?  Sure, if you ensure that they're well prepared, or you don't mind that they're all that well prepared but can and will pay for, say, the Field School (60K/year), where the academic admissions bar isn't set too high.  You say that your kid isn't a self starter.  OK, are you prepared to pay for academic break camps and other enrichment, like tutors to bump up challenge?  Hint: there aren't "honors" (grade level) science or social studies classes at SH and most students don't work at grade level.[b] As for the utterly SH fantastic arts program, talk to the SH arts-minded parents who raised thousands of dollars to get a bunch of broken auditorium seats fixed, just last year.[/b] DCPS hadn't fixed the seats for years (and never did). It's all relative, still DCPS. You sound like a family that might want to look at suburban schools providing a push for your student.  [/quote]

I'm not sure why you say this so derisively. I doubt OP is expecting SH to function like a private school. Parents able to come together to raise thousands of dollars for a nice to have seems like a good thing in my book. And if your kid is into the arts, a parent community that decides the most important nice to have is arts-related sounds, again, like a good thing.[/quote]

Give us a break. Do parents need to raise money to get basic school infrastructure repaired at good suburban schools?  No way.[/quote]

+1.  This.  Highly doubtful there is much funding for arts if you don’t even have money to fix/repair basic necessity.
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I’m not asking if you think there’s sufficient funding for the arts at SH. The SH arts programs are incredible, funding or not.

I’m asking about the academics. I wish someone who actually had kids there would weigh in. I had always thought BASIS was the obvious answer. Academics are of paramount importance to our family theoretically. [/quote]

Then why are you even considering SH??  Their few honors offerings are actually just grade level not advance and the overwhelming majority of kids are below grade level.

If your kid really is bright but not independently driven, similar to my DS, then you know that a high performing peer group is the key for these type of kids to reach their full potential.   [/quote]

I’m considering it because my kid really wants to go and her reasons aren’t absurd. She loves and excels in the arts and they have two programs in her specific areas that she’s excited about (and BASIS doesn’t, they have nothing). Her quality of life would also likely be better if she went to school a few blocks from our house in terms of independence, sleep, etc. I want my kid to love school and I do think that also affects eventual academic achievement. The question is whether SH academics are good enough to get by. I am reasonably sure that she’d get into any normal advanced programs they offer, but am concerned that that might only mean math. [/quote]

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