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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They no longer want kids who need learning supports. So as long as your kid doesn't need any you are good.[/quote]

What does this mean?[/quote]

I’m not the poster of that comment however I know that the lower school did not let in many applicants with mild learning challenges this year vs other years where these kids would have been let in.  Which lead to low enrollment (from what I’ve heard).  [/quote]

SAES parent. Enrollment is the highest it’s ever been school wide and the school has increased size in lower and middle school fairly dramatically over the 8 years we have been here so that part isn’t quite right.

But I do think, though, that there is mismatch sometimes between the reputation among some of SAES as being especially good at dealing with learning differences or “quirky” kids (whatever that hard to define term means). I don’t think that is true.

We love the school, but it is a pretty traditional suburban private like Bullis or SSSAS or Flint Hill. It is not a school like Burke or Field that has a more nontraditonal approach to learning. To be clear, those schools are awesome. But they different in learning approach to SAES, which is very traditional in most respects. We are lucky to have such variety.

My advice is you’ll likely be much happier with what SAES offers if you are comparing it to Bullis than if you are thinking of it as similar to Field. [/quote]

How is Burke non-traditional? Because the teachers go by their first names? Because they try to incorporate project based and experiential learning? How is this different than any other mainstream private in the DMV? I find comments like PP’s to be a way to cover up [b]racist, classist, transphobic,[/b] etc values.[/quote]

This is such an odd reply - where does anything this PP says suggest these...

I have toured Bullis, SAES, Burke, Field many times over the years and what PP writes feels on point. While each school has it's own benefits I'd agree that SAES/Bullis are more alike and Burke/Field are more alike. I might put Burke somewhere in the middle on this spectrum with traditional approach ranging from most traditional at SAES/Bullis to Burke then to least traditional at Field.  Plus SAES/Bullis are also more similar in the sense that they are out in the suburbs on large campuses. Field can sort of compare on that realm - but not fully as their facilities aren't as complete (no cafeteria) and are inside DC and then Burke is more of pure city feel, without a campus (or cafeteria) but easy access to metro and places to go out to eat.  [/quote]

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