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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. In reading previous threads about McLean I see a lot of stuff about divorced parents, trophy wives, plastic surgery, Lamborghinis, etc., none of which apply to us. Can any current parents comment on this?

I also see concerns that the new HOS does not have a teaching background. The heads of each division seem to have very strong education backgrounds, however, so I would think a HOS with good administrative and financial skills would be a fine leader - perhaps even better. Can current parents comment on this?[/quote]

That was one poster who rattled off that ridiculous list [b]and was quickly shot down by several of us.[/b]  I do not know of a single parent who fits that description.  When pressed on the idea of "Lamborghinis" (because I have never seen one anywhere near McLean) the poster admitted it had been on the school grounds as a novelty item during truck day when the youngest students in lower school explore various vehicles.  I don't remember my DS even having truck day so its possible that even that was made up but if true all it means is that one time such a car was borrowed for a school event.

My other DC has attended two other DC privates where there were an equal number, or more, divorced parents, trophy wives, plastic surgery, etc . . .  Which is all to say just ignore this BS.[/quote]

Really?  Orchestrated?  DO you compare notes?  No one has ever told you that the Special Needs thread is supposed to be helpful and kind?  Do you mothers routinely get together, have coffee and decide whom to "shoot down"?  And, BTW, I was the Lamborghini poster which I saw at a car wash.  You, as a collective, did not "shut me down".  And I did not "admit it had been on the school grounds as a novelty item during truck day when the youngest students in lower school explore various vehicles".  I've never heard of truck day (?) at the McLean School.  I never saw "truck day" (why would a Lamborghini be at "truck day" anyhow?  Methinks you are making this up).  The gull wing lamborghini is there every year at the car wash.  I am truly sorry you feel so defensive about the expense of the school and the money, but when an OP is exploring schools for a SN child and I can help, I will.  OP, go tour the school; view the cars in the parking lot on a parents' day event; and ask for a current catalogue and check how many mommies and daddies have different addresses and phone numbers.  And as for the bar mitzvahs, yes, it is unfortunate they all fall in one year so every single Saturday is booked and then jr. is wrecked for church the next day.  We even got "save the date" cards 8 months in advance for one.  It's also very uncomfortable to be driving jr. to a bar mitzvah and attending (not driving yet) and then for the huge hotel event in the evening when both the mother and father of the bar mitzvah kid is fighting.  One mom even asked me to start setting her up.

But that's not why we left.  WE left because of too much homework and uncoordinated projects and exams (all on the same day) and teachers that seemed to have forgotten they were teaching in a special needs school.  Our kid was too stressed.  OP, check out your public with an IEP - MUCH better move.[/quote]

Ha.  In our experience, McLean tries to forget that it is a special needs school.[/quote]

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