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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally worry about girls schools being too academically focused because girls often have a tendency to be perfectionists. Girls already outnumber boys in college. I imagine any competitive girls school will have an academically intense environment. [/quote]

Umm, let me guess, you are a "stay at home mom" - an unemployed woman with nothing to do but fret about what life *might* be like in the big scary world beyond your kitchen.[/quote]

At the first parent meeting at Stone Ridge, the Head of the Upper School compared the general differences between how a girl and a boy would complete a poster for a presentation, stating that the girl might take a couple of trips to Michael’s and the boy would complete it in the car on the way to school. A bit extreme, maybe- but a very important point about the tendency for girls to want things to be perfect.

I thought that was incredibly helpful insight and a management strategy that my girls learned at  Stone Ridge that continues to serve them well.

I was lucky enough to be a stay-at-home Mom for a decade. I think my kids have less concern about the world out there because of that, rather than in spite of it.  
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