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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the Beauvoir boys have heard back.  I know of at least one disappointed and now desperate DCU-Beauvoir M feverishly filling out applications to other schools as it looks like DS did not quite make the grade.[/quote]

Lucky he. It sounds like it might not have been the right place for him--even the most ardent STA booster would admit that there are many smart and talented boys who would do better in a different environment--and it seems his parents would have sent him there had he been accepted. Why the catty response to what is quite possibly a good thing for the child in question? (Of course, there's an alternative explanation for his rejection, which is that STA would have been fine for him and the school made an error in turning him down, but then your reaction is even harder to comprehend, as it amounts to taking pleasure in someone having suffered an accident.)

Having had kids at Beauvoir myself, I know several Beauvoir boys who were accepted to STA but went elsewhere because their parents thought another school was a better fit, some whose parents decided not even to apply to STA because they sensed it wasn't right for their son, and a few who applied to STA and were turned down. As far as I know, all of them are happy where they are now. So I expect the child you are reporting on will be a happy fourth grader next year, too, even if his parents will go through some anxious moments between now and late March.

(NB: To avoid the risk that this post will be misinterpreted, allow me to clarify that this is not a complaint about STA: I also know very many boys who went on to STA, and nearly all of them seem to be quite happy there, too. Believing that STA is not the best school for [i]every[/i] smart and talented boy [b]does not mean [/b]that it is not the best place for [i]any[/i] of them.)[/quote]

11:28, I'd appreciate it if you could expand on your statement that "nearly all of them seem to be quite happy."  Are the few that do not seem to be happy that way because of academics, the emphasis on sports, or something else?[/quote]

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