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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 2.99 kid at one of these schools is getting deferred from average schools left and right. I would give anything to do it all over and let the kid have a nice childhood instead of the torture he just endured for absolutely nothing. [/quote]

Sorry to hear this PP! everything happens for a reason and please be positive as I believe your kid will get in somewhere.[/quote].

I’m so sorry. Please tell us what you mean by torture endured. In hindsight would you have chosen a different independent school?[/quote]

I would choose to have him attend a large, suburban public school, as I did. Where everybody has an equal shot at classes they want and the administration doesn't deliberately keep bottom kids in the bottom in order to make the top kids stand out even more. I would have had him surrounded with normal, grounded people, insteand of the horrible families and administrators that we have had to endure at this area private. Both of my kids hate it and regret having to spend their lives with the constant stress this cooker pressure school has put them under. [/quote]

PP here and again I’m really sorry. I have two at SFS and hope that is not the school you are talking about. My US sounds a lot like your DC - great kid but very “average” in this sphere and not a stand out with grades, sports or test scores. But interestingly, this particular DC loved the school, friends there and teachers. Refuses to get sucked into the pressure cooker mindset and is fine making Bs. Just enjoys the experience of the school (well- did enjoy- HATES DL!). Fully resigned to going to a lesser-tier-by-DCUM-standards college. It used to bother me a little but one thing DH and I have embraced from the pandemic- life rarely works out the way we plan.

PP your DC can get a good education anywhere. I hope he embraces that and blooms where he is planted![/quote]

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