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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would love to hear more about the Upper School experience. What are parent teacher conferences like? [/quote]

At gds, there are parent teacher conferences in the fall. You can sign up for meetings with all teachers/whichever teachers you want. I think they were 10 minutes per teacher.[/quote]

The above is true for gds in all four years, 9th-12th grade.

Sidwell had parent teacher conferences only for 9th grade. They are for 10 (maybe 15?) minutes and only with 3 teachers. You get to rank your preferences but you are not guaranteed top 3.

We 100% preferred gds on this dimension. (Maybe new leadership can change this) The vast majority of teachers also knew our gds student better (give or take a couple) than the 3 teachers knew our Sidwell student. We couldn’t pick the majority of our DCs Sidwell teachers out of a lineup to be honest. HS is always (appropriately) arms length for parents, but Sidwell is even more so. [/quote]

Teachers at Sidwell are happy to have a call with parents any time, particularly if a student is struggling with something.[/quote]

How about the ones that aren't struggling?  Please know that there is a disconnect between (more than a few) teachers and the top students in the hardest classes. Clearly not every teacher but this happens far too much.[/quote]

Literally any time we wanted to talk to a teacher, we could. Never an issue.[/quote]

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