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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Montessori - forget which one but one on Old Georgetown Road.  They told us to sit in a chair and observe and not interact with the kids.  Teachers were cold, uncaring and not attentive to the kids.  They walked around the classroom strangely and some of the kids were walking around wild, not engaged.

[b]St Jane (or what ever it is called) - very formal and cold.  None fo the kids seemed happy.  The woman we met with was cold, not friendly and got angry when I asked the demographics of the kids.[/b]

[b]Avalon School - only a few kids in the grade, very disorganized, waiting for a tour and the front desk woman handed out ibprohpen to several kids like it was candy, kids seemed academically behind (very nice kids), headmaster was very much into his views and only his views and was clear it he'd take any child but would make the child justify their views and turn everything into a debate (i.e. bullying child into his views).[/b]

Holy Cross (K-8) - Surprised how much we liked it but after the other experiences very turned off by a religious school.  Staff were very warm and welcoming, had no issue with different viewpoints, kids friendly and seemed happy.

(I'm surprised at the posts on the facilities being old.  These schools have been around for years so its not surprising but for the price they charge they should be well maintained).[/quote]

Funny on both. 
Avalon is a good school for the boys on the whole but the men that run it do seem to be weird. It can trickle down to the Brookewood school some as the men don’t take as much input there into running the girls’ school (and they somehow don’t realize how inappropriate that is) but overall Brookewood was good (before high school). [/quote]

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