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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, why did you select St. Albans?  It sounds like you're not pleased with the experience.   Perhaps you discovered that it wasn't the right place after the fact.  But have you allowed your child to continue there?[/quote]

I selected St. Albans because it seemed to me to be the best school at the time, and I was very much influenced by the tremendous hype surrounding it.  It is impossible not to be impressed by the school.  I have not taken my son out of St. Albans.  In the end, I don't think it is a bad place, I just don't expect any of my rabble rousing would make any difference in changing the things I do not like.  I am only saying that when you let your decicions be influenced by the degree of competitiveness at entry, you are immediately putting yourself in a position to dismiss things about the school you may very well not like.  I know during the tours, no parents with whom I toured asked a single pointed or critical question.  They wouldn't dare.  They're too afraid their kid's application would end up in a trash bin.  That in itself has allowed St. Albans to be less accountable.

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