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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as I can tell, WES does not feed to St. Albans.  You would think given the Episcopal connection WES would be a natural feeder.  Also, there is an STA-WES muckety muck husband/wife connection, so yet another reason it should happen.

Any theories on why it doesn't happen more?  I was actually surprised at the number of WES grads who end up going public after 8th.  But maybe that is what many parents plan - get through elementary and the sticky middle school years, and then go to the well regarded Churchill/Whitman/BCC high schools?  Or is STA too urban for the suburan WES parents?  What do you think?[/quote]

If you look at the lists of schools WES graduates attend --they're posted on the website-- you'll see that every year there is very little doubling up on high school enrollment. Almost each WES graduate ends up going to different schools, so I dont understand how there can be this feeling of being a feeder school.  Several years ago there were rumors of WES trying to hook up to St Andrews, but nothing ever came of that.

Re bullying, I suppose it happens as it does everywhere, but I have never heard of it at WES.  Like every school WES has issues, but truly  we have never encountered bullying at WES.

Responding to  the parent behavior that has been discussed.  I would never describe WES parents as being exclusive or cliquey.  WES is a private school and there are people with money there (as there are at EVERY private school) but WES has a lot of FA families and those kids and families are woven into the community just like everyone else is.  Sure there are parents at WES that I choose not to have long conversations with, or who I feel like I dont exactly relate to, but its no different than being put in a social situation at work where there are many different kinds of people who may not under other circumstances socialize.  WES brings an eclectic group of people together into a common community.[/quote]

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