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[quote=Anonymous]I liked everything about Shepherd: its demographics, its test scores, its traditionalism--even its uniforms.

And it was a disaster for us. It is not the first time I have said this, but it is a deeply conventional school. Not with the teachers or the administration, but with the other families, and their expectations. If you have a child or a family that does not quite fit its mold... it is not a nice place. At all. Just in terms of the other kids. That was our experience, and one I heard from other families. I remain very pro-Shepherd because I think that the things it does well it does awesomely, but it is also a school that carries all the baggage of its time and place, and that baggage has to be accounted for. I'm not a huge fan of progressive education--I prefer the Shepherd model--but the Shepherd model had my child being attacked constantly for being different--and that was not so great.

Shepherd Elementary made me realize that DC is a very conservative town and that kids who don't fit the mold are always going to be shunned. [/quote]

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