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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I said NCS has made progress but that it’s reputation as a pressure cooker with mean girls still lingered. Private school parents are probably more aware of that reputation than those from public. [/quote]
NP. I hesitate in getting involved in this back and forth, except to say that our family is new to NCS this year, and it's been a relief to find that the "pressure cooker" and "mean girls" reputation seems, based on our personal experience so far, not to be based in fact. It's been nothing like that for our DD or us. We really like the AD at NCS, and we're glad we trusted our gut.

That said, I hate seeing contentious responses between independent school parents. We don't have a son, so we never vetted STA, but having also looked closely at Sidwell, GDS, Holton and Maret, I'm fairly confident that they're all great environments as well (and I'm sure STA is too).

I think there's a tendency in these threads to want to find big cultural differences in these schools when, in reality, they all tend to have a lot in common. We should all be thankful to have so many great institutions nearby.[/quote]

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