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[quote=Anonymous]     Another poster here addressing 22:17:  While St. Andrew's does a great job pushing  kids with minor learning disabilities, the vast majority of students there do not have any.   While I have never seen any statistics, I have heard that maybe 20% of the kids or so may have learning differences that may be characterized as a disability -- ADD, dyslexia etc.) -- I am sure it must vary by year/class.   In MoCo, St. Andrew's is generally considered a very strong academic independent school.  The DC community -- with its large number of privates and fewer attractive publics -- tends to be less informed about the school.   When my DC  -- who has no LD -- graduated from Lowell and moved to St. Andrews, some of the children in the class who arguably had noticeable learning differences attended Burke, Field, and some other places, but I understand there are some very strong students at some of these schools and I would not make broad assumptions about the student body based on who went there from my own experience.  Even some of the children who attended GDS and Maret arguably had a noticeable weakness in a one or another academic area.  I don't doubt your perceptions based on whomever you in particular know who may have attended, but let's avoid the hyperbole about what "Everyone Knows" which implies a broader statement of fact which is simply false.  As has been posted elsewhere, I suspect the top universities and LACs that quite a number of  St. Andrew's children attend may be surprised to learn their successful students have any learning difficulties.   And, as noted by another poster, it is also true that some children who have LDs can also succeed at the very highest levels of academic achievement as well.   Of course, not everyone at St. Andrew's fits that high achievement model -- the school was founded on and remains true to offering a well balanced education students with somewhat wider range of abilities than some of the downtown schools -- but I hear that even in the big name downtown schools not eveyrone is an academic superstar.   But if you don't fall into that strong student category at St. Andrew's, you can still be successful in the right classes and build confidence.   That may be more difficult at some other schools.  [/quote]

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