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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know if it’s more funny that someone revived this thread from 2017 in 2021 or that it jus picked up right where it left off.

While I am not going to weigh in on the merits of the Sidwell v GDS debate, there are some tangential issues raised that I would like to clear up.

First, and from my DD’s personal experience, the quality of education at the MCPS MS humanities magnet at Eastern does surpass that of Sidwell/GDS. Even though it’s humanities, the math is harder and even though the school has less resources, the teachers are 100% committed and every single student there is performing at a high level. There are no stragglers, which you do get a few of at both Sidwell and GDS for various reasons.

Second, STA/NCS are very conservative/Republican and it’s actually increasing, not decreasing as people are self sorting.

In order of % conservatives/Republicans, I would rank the schools: STA/NCS > Sidwell > Maret > GDS. Maret and Sidwell were a close call and I’m not sure the difference is moreso politics but instead moreso what feels like new money vs old money. Although Sidwell has a massive endowment, Maret oddly has more of an old money feel about it while I personally know at lot of new money at Sidwell and it really does have more of a new money feel. [/quote]
And how is it that you’re so intimately familiar with the academic abilities of all the students and the other aspects of all these different schools? Sounds like a bunch of bullshit based on stereotypes to me. [/quote]

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