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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is our third year at this school and we love it! We moved from a top-3 school to escape the toxic environment dominating many private schools. Our kids are much happier and the academics is much more rigorous. Teachers actually teach which means that unlike most other DC private schools, parents don’t have to pay thousands of dollars a year for private tutors and enrichment courses, and still their kids get into top universities! It’s a very expat/international school so parents don’t really care about US rankings and ratings (hence far fewer responses on sites like Niche, which directly affects the school’s rankings; and very few comments and views on platforms like DC Urban Moms and Dads). This lack of visibility and staying under the radar screen truly makes it a hidden gem. I hope it stays this way.

The school prepared the kids for IB well and in grades 11 and 12, the school offers IB, which is very appealing.

Two negative things are: weak sports facilities (although the new gym has helped a lot); no good varsity teams; and due to its largely expat community, many families are transient so kids may lose their friends after 3, 4 years. This is, of course negative and positive. The positive is that kids will have friends all over the world and stay well-connected through social media. More importantly, there is no “dominant” culture or group of kids usually which helps to minimize the toxicity and toxic environment that exists in many other DC private schools, especially for girls. Having uniforms also helps greatly in mitigating this toxicity!

Overall, compared to our previous top-3 school experience, we as a family are much happier at BISW and our only regret is not having made the switch sooner! Sure, the downside is that [b]we can no longer brag about our kids going to a top-3 school[/b] but for the mental health and sanity of our kids, this is truly a small sacrifice.[/quote]

:shock: maybe this is the problem[/quote]

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