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[quote=Anonymous]and since you are not even at the school, perhaps you should wait until you actually go and take a look 9and hopefully apply) before making comments on a thread for a new STA parent seeking advice.  Your son is only 7 after all.  I find your post just plain wrong.  As mentioned above by another actual STA parent, boys of all kinds do fit in well there, because the academic reputation is what it is.  I cannot say I know the same is true at Landon for example.  Anyone who claims that every boy is a scholar athlete (or has to be in order to be happy) is just plain wrong.

And the PP who says that faculty/admin have dual roles as coaches is missing a more salient point:  the school (like so many other jock schools) does not hire a ton of coach only positions, and actually hires the teacher/administrator first who then happens to be able to help coach.  Moreover, it is a wonderful thing for the boys to have their teachers (including women ones by the way) also as their coaches.  They tend to behave better, listen and seek them out when they need advice/mentoring.

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