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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh?  SSSAS' facilities are on par with any of the Big 3s (GDS, NCS/STA, Sidwell) at least for the lower and upper schools. [/quote]

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The lower school is beautiful.  Has OP actually seen SSSAS, and other DC privates??[/quote]

The SSSAS facilities are not equivalent to at the Cathedral Schools. Have you been inside the athletic center, library and chapel at NCS?[/quote]

[b]Um, yes. Have you been inside the athletic fields and centers at SSSAS?  [/b][/quote]

Yes, I have numerous times. Your snide response (“Um, yes”) is exactly why SSSAS parents have a reputation around Alexandria for being rude and snobby. [/quote]

I'm an SSSAS parent and an alum of an IAC/ISL school.  SSSAS's athletic facilities and academic facilities (not faculty here, but physical plant) are, objectively, inferior to most if not all of the IAC schools and many, if not most of the ISL-only schools.  IMO, from a physical facilities perspective, the Close, Bullis and Landon/Holton far outstrip SSSAS.  But, a school is more than just bricks, mortar and grass (or turf).  I'm happy to discuss why SSSAS was the right decision for us, but the justification wouldn't be based on the quality of the campus.  If this board were honest with itself and ranked schools based on that, Bullis would no doubt be in the Big 3 -- and I think it would only take a minute or two on the Bullis thread to realize that no one (not even those connected with the school) would rank it overall ahead of the Cathedral Schools, Sidwell, etc.  [/quote]

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