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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Current parent of a senior at Potomac and while no school is perfect our experience at Potomac has been pretty great. I honestly believe that many - not all - of the parents complaining in this thread are ones who thought their kid was brilliant and going to be a straight A student in HS but, when he or she got to Potomac and isn’t, these parents freak out. They can’t handle it. They want to find anyone to blame.

The truth is Potomac US is very intense, very rigorous, and straight As are not common, especially when compared to public schools, even the best publics. The US students have to be very well organized and totally on their game every single day.  Getting an A means a lot of work and perseverance. It’s not enough just to be smart.

- From parents whose kid is Not a Lifer & who have experience at other top privates in DC. [/quote]

So you are basically repeating the argument of the Potomac administrator that part of the "hard experience" is to encourage teachers not to have transparency, to have no written feedback in a timely manner and for all these smart "together" high schools students to "guess" about what they need to improve in each assignment every week without any grading or feedback from teachers, just so they can all be humbled and taught that they aren't all the smartest students and experience the harsh grading at Potomac in a more, let's say, thoroughly personal way.   What a bunch of malarkey!  If the school faculty doesn't respect it's own students enough to hold up their end of the bargain to actually provide feedback and grades on assignments, what does that say about what Potomac thinks of it's own students and the culture of trust between student and teacher it is instituting.  I would want to say VERY FAR AWAY from a school such as this!  it would be an absolute disaster for mental health, self-image, and pedagogical success of the students.  [/quote]

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