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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys this thread is so distasteful. Don’t you have a parent listserv? I can’t believe parents would start a public thread to vent about their school and name teachers. [/quote]

NP-no, nothing like that exists.  There are lot of threads about Potomac lately because parents are frustrated and are dealing with admin who either ignore issues or give lip service and nothing changes.  Potomac has a real problem with a lack of consistent standards and accountability.

In the division leading to the US, it is so much worse- no grade transparency at all and grades not released until the end of term.  The midpoint update is just qualitative observations. Some teachers never returned HW at all and we had teachers who didn't return tests at all or until end of term.  I don't know why it is such a mess but honestly teacher morale doesn't seem to be great either.  There seem to be a lot of admin with vague responsibilities. Perhaps teachers are tasked with a lot of useless meetings or are overloaded with covid and backfill tasks?

Anyone with a business background who pays attention quickly observes signs of mismanagement.  Communications from the school to parents focus on fundraising and feel-good features highlighting talents of exceptional kids who largely became excellent outside of school.

Parents who have been around a long time stop donating, stop volunteering, and simply try to help kids deal with the challenges. Many of us have had too many experiences where we advocate and either nothing changes or worse, worry about downstream implications for the kid.  It's not a healthy dynamic and I do regret not trusting my concerns sooner and moving DC out.  [/quote]

Wow, this is pretty terrible. We applied to both Langley and Potomac for K. Thinking now maybe we should stick to L even if we get in P? Having the same school all throughout is attractive, but the tuition money isn’t meaningless for us so we wouldn’t feel happy if we were getting this.

Side note: they sent us the fall alumni magazine. Recent alums and current students don’t seem that impressive…[/quote]

Do what is best for your kid but know there are many Langley transfers to Potomac. Not so much the other way. There is a reason.

Langley is a great school. But, it’s not Potomac…I can only speak to Lower Mid and Is- but response time from admin has never been more than 24 hours. And often it’s same day. I have been able to forge personal relationships with each administrator  (I am not a big donator). Grades don’t exist in lower and Middle but my kids get all their work back with qualitative comments in a timely fashion. Most work needs a parent signature to ensure child discusses errors with parent. In IS all tests come back graded and parents have to sign. So I have no idea what the PP is taking about that the division leading up to IS is non responsive.  The write ups at report card time are literally page long essays (most recent one was 6 pages) with so much depth- not just check the box…[/quote]

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