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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to hear more about the Upper School experience. What are parent teacher conferences like? [/quote]

At gds, there are parent teacher conferences in the fall. You can sign up for meetings with all teachers/whichever teachers you want. I think they were 10 minutes per teacher.[/quote]

The above is true for gds in all four years, 9th-12th grade.

Sidwell had parent teacher conferences only for 9th grade. They are for 10 (maybe 15?) minutes and only with 3 teachers. You get to rank your preferences but you are not guaranteed top 3.

We 100% preferred gds on this dimension. (Maybe new leadership can change this) The vast majority of teachers also knew our gds student better (give or take a couple) than the 3 teachers knew our Sidwell student. We couldn’t pick the majority of our DCs Sidwell teachers out of a lineup to be honest. HS is always (appropriately) arms length for parents, but Sidwell is even more so. [/quote]

Teachers at Sidwell are happy to have a call with parents any time, particularly if a student is struggling with something.[/quote]

+1. Parents of 10th through 12th graders don’t have to rely on parent-teacher conferences. Teachers are accessible and available to meet at anytime during the school year.

Sidwell teachers also provide feedback throughout the year about how your student is doing (good or bad), via Interim’s. [/quote]

+1 we've always been able to interact with a SFS teacher as needed. But here's the thing: by design, they want the kids to manage issues themselves well before getting parents involved. It's something we had to get used to (we were new to SFS for HS), but we have come to appreciate it. [/quote]

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