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My dd goes to Churchill.  We chose to live here because of high test scores/academics but have been quite disappointed.  Much less academically rigorous than I was expecting and deficient in a number of ways.  I somewhat regret not selecting Wootton, but I don't know anything about the stress issues there.

Churchill has high test scores because it is wealthy and many parents supplement with tutoring, etc.  I don't think the teaching is any better than many other schools.  In addition, although parents prioritize education enough to push their kids for As or high SAT scores, I wouldn't describe the parents or kids as intellectual in any way.  There is much more talk/prioritization about things like sports and poms than about academic clubs.  Things like science/model UN, and other academic clubs are not strong, and the kids in those areas seem to be thought of as 'not cool.'  Kids in some of these clubs try to distance themselves from the clubs even if they participate in them.  Kids complain about the instrumental music program, and there aren't things as basic as a marching band or a science fair.  I heard (rumor) that the Model UN was disbanded this year because there were so many kids doing drugs at the conference that they couldn't get it under control without disbanding.

My sense is that this is different in Wootton (but again, I'm only seeing from the outside).

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I could have written this same paragraph except that the school we somewhat regret not selecting is Whitman.      (I think that Wootton and Churchill are comparable.) At least when I went to Whitman many years ago, kids would pursue their academic interests outside of class, even if it could do nothing to help their GPA.

I suspect though that Whitman is no longer like this, and we are seeing a generational divide.[/quote]

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