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[quote=Anonymous]I have had both my kids in different ones and find it so curious why people don’t want to believe that these schools operate the way that they do. Not every single one and different admin function very differently, but how many vanity fair and nypost stories do you need to read before realizing the TT aren’t bastions of integrity?

It is there from day one. One of the issues in the K12 girls is that they red shirt kids who aren’t obvious fits — they are smart but not high IQ or children of trustees, etc. Those girls socially dominate the younger higher IQ ones just because at that age being older makes you seem cooler and smarter. They also do great in lower school, zip along but then the gap in the younger ones closes. At about 7th, the developmental advantage of being a year older disappears academically and the smart but not as smart as they think they are girls haven’t been taught to work hard and are lapped by the younger girls and it guts them. meanwhile the little ones spend their whole childhood being socially dominated and miserable. from day one, there is a game being played, advantage being taken (in the name of “equity” no less).

I pulled my kid after a few years, sent her to a not TT school. My guess is she will end up at one for HS when she’s old enough to have developed her own integrity and sense of self and find her own way through.[/quote]

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