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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this ends up generating helpful posts, I think it’s a really great topic to do for all the most talked about schools on this board.

Sidwell: (1) joyless pressure cooker full of virtue signaling but also prestige-obsessed parents who start cool in LS but ultimately will *cut* your kid and the college counseling office by flooding them not just with death threats but with pictures of someone else’s kid partying with all the other really hard partying sidwell kids (their kid was practicing for olympic ice skating that night thank you); or (2) holy grail of all private school admissions that is impossible to get in (despite the fact that tons of relatively similar kids from relatively similar backgrounds actually do get in, year in and year out) that no one ever turns down (even though they do) or that if they do turn down will be forever blacklisted at the school and in the Quaker records and maybe the democratic “who’s who” list; or (3) rigorous, serious school with a recent turn toward performative wokeness…and on and on I gather from the boards. Would be very helpful to dispel most if not all of what I said….

Same with NCS, STA, and Maret…So much craziness on these boards. If this works for GDS, I hope we can get other schools straight too![/quote]

Ma'am, this is a Wendy's.  :roll: Actually, this is a thread about GDS fact v. fiction, not SFS.

We came to GDS in US, and have found it to be a great fit for our child and family. But families differ, and I feel for OP that it is hard to get a sense of fit without on-campus visits. For the lower school, I've heard most families find the school very welcoming and nurturing, as well as meeting the child where they are.[/quote]

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