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[quote=Anonymous]Very late to this thread, and a Former Parent of a Kid who went to Friends.  We had to pull him out of the school.  He went to another school and is now at his first choice of college, so it worked out.  This was a kid who had never had ANY problems before Friends, or after Friends, and it wasn't academic problems.  The place was toxic beyond words.   The worst decision I made as a parent, and possibly in my entire life, was enrolling my son at the Friends School of Baltimore.

Let me be very, very clear - the Friends School of Baltimore is the most toxic institution I have ever seen in my life, and this is not because I do not understand the culture.  I went to a private school and attended Brown and Harvard, so I know something about the culture, or thought I did anyway.

I don't think Matt planned to leave when he did, but given the utter mess he had a hand in creating (or not stopping), he probably very much wanted to leave.  Also, the Dean of Student life is also history, which is sort of a shame because he was a decent guy caught in an insane situation.

The problem that hit Matt is that he completely lost control of the culture of the school around 2017 and the place, almost overnight, became the most hardball takedown and snitch culture I have ever seen.  It was like something out of Orwell's 1984.  Oddly, the administration wasn't really driving how toxic Friends was; the parents of the place and their kids were.

Honestly, if whoever they get to fill Matt's position doesn't completely turn around the culture there, no one in their right mind will send their kids there, whatever the placement to Ivies or proxy Ivies like Stanford.

Anyway, I would be shocked if he planned this.  He didn't.  The place was (and probably still is) the school equivalent of a superfund site - completely toxic, and it will take decades to fix it, if it can be fixed.[/quote]

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