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[quote=Anonymous]Our experience with SSAS mirrors many others. There are some real positives—especially in the LS, where a few genuinely dedicated teachers took a meaningful interest in our child. But beyond individual classrooms, the culture is the problem. Bullying exists, but the deeper issue is the absence of any culture that supports or encourages academic excellence. There is simply no expectation of rigor, and intellectual curiosity is not just undervalued but sometimes openly mocked.  (If you ask around to enough parents, these stories can get quite deflating.) In other words, the environment feels very academically lazy -- and I hate to say it, but that is reinforced by large chunks of the parent community (many of them "proud alums!") who seem to be totally ok with that.

This may sound harsh, but once we looked beyond SSAS, we were struck by how immensely different the academic standards and cultures were at the top schools in the DMV versus what SSSAS offers. Once we understood that, we left—and have been far happier (and our kid has been far more academically engaged) ever since.
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