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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what kind of school are your kids coming from? What grades are they in?

Australian progressive is very different than US progressive politically. GDS is considered liberal but for this lifetime progressive they are a bit too out there and have brought in a lot of the divisions around race in an incompetent way. Friends there tell me it can be tough to be a white kid there.

The educational culture in the US is very different. If your kids are in the lower grades and just want a good education you may not want the drill and kill and excessive homework of NCS/STA, Sidwell, and GDS. keep in mind there is also a snobbery and classism in many NW DC schools that is alien to Aussie culture.

Burke is a lovely progressive school, warm & inclusive culture which would be a good fit for for kids coming from Australian schools. [/quote]

You know, if you had just posted your first and last paragraphs and resisted the private school forum imperative to tear down other schools to build up your own, you’d be a lot more credible. As it is, you actually put Burke in a bad light by association. 
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Some asinine people make assumptions based on little knowledge.

I don’t have a child at Burke. I have children who have attended or are attending all of the schools I decried as having drill and kill cultures.

I have close friends at Burke and think it’s a lovely school. I wish my children were enrolled there and not at the soul-crushing schools they currently attend. They are now too embedded in their respective schools to remove them but I would if I could.

These schools are the epitome of the race to the bottom. NCS and Sidwell are particularly cruel to their students in the name of rigor.

To the poster who assumed that the high pressure drill and kill and grade deflation only starts in upper school. Nope. [/quote]

All that and yet you won’t identify the schools your kids go to even to save the OP and others from sending their kids there. 
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