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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're not likely to know your kid better than you do but they are likely to know local school much better than most parents do.  And likely to know which types of kids flourish where.

If you think that the school is clueless about what your kid's like, by all means ignore what they're saying (but then you might pause to remember that you've already proven you aren't very good at choosing a school for your kid because you've chosen one where they don't get your kid and then you kept her there for years regardless).

Koolaid's served in lots of places and flavors.  Maybe you've been drinking it elsewhere without realizing it.[/quote]

The point of this thread is that the school isn't always acting in your kid's best interest.  The school is acting in its own best interest.  For the school, your kid is just a blip in a long history the school has had, and the long future it hopes to have, of sending kids on to DC-area elite schools.  The school wants to send kids to Sidwell that will make Sidwell happy, so that Sidwell takes more of the school's kids next year, and the school's brochure about acceptances at Sidwell continues to look impressive.

None of this has anything to do about whether OP's kid could succeed at Sidwell (just an example, don't know where she's applied) or the cathedral schools.  It looks in fact like OP's kid could succeed there, if grades and test scores are all that's at stake.

If OP's school had said here kid wasn't a good "fit" at some other school, then yes, you would have been right:  OP should ask why, and listen to the answer.  But that's not what happened -  OP's current school said her kid would be "competitive" at the other school.  So what's going on?  OP's school wants to make itself happy by making Sidwell or whatever school happy.  High-achievers like OP's kid are a dime a dozen around the area, and probably even in OP's own school, so her school is going to pre-select from among the high-achievers to make sure the kids it wants to go to Sidwell get the nod.

I think maybe you've drunk the koolaid?  Or you're a school administrator yourself.
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