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At a regularly scheduled 12th grade parent meeting--so not college placement or CCO related and the CCO people do not attend--someone asked the upper school head whether they would be collecting parent feedback about the college application process and the CCO. His reaction was priceless: it was as if the idea had never occurred to him and he was pretty clear that they were not interested in parent feedback. He did give lip service to say that "of course" parents could always provide feedback, but it was apparent that any such feedback would be unwanted.[/quote]

A few years ago during a regularly scheduled meeting, a parent expressed concern to the US Head that the entire CCO office was changing within the span of a few months.  The US Head's reaction was to remind us that there are children dying in Africa from hunger so we should keep our problems in perspective. That response should give you an idea of the school's interest in parental concerns. During the pandemic, the CCO never met children face to even after school was open hybrid.  Yet the US Head continued to send out email touting Lauren and how lucky we were to have her guiding the ship.  In hindsight we should have trusted our instinct and transferred out of the school but by the time we figured out that the HOS, the Upper School Principal and the Head of Counseling are ineffective leaders it was too late. Plus it would have been cruel to our child to transfer during a pandemic as they would have no opportunity to make new friends.

We were so excited when DD got into Sidwell in 9th grade but now we wish she had chosen NCS which was the other top contender instead. [/quote]

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