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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maret is the greatest, most diverse, most academically challenging school in dc. It has the best looking kids who are the best at sports and the best at arts and everyone in the city should be jealous.

This is how you boosters sound. My DH interviews kids for his university and the maret kids have been the most critical of their school describing it as a bubble and a haven for rich kids who can't see outside those gates. [/quote]

Well, actually, no one is saying that--about it being the greatest, most diverse, most academically challenging school. Maret is what Maret is. STA is STA, Sidwell is Sidwell, St. Andrews is…well, you get my point.  Schools are all very different here in DC, and that's the great thing--you can find a community that works for you. Simply stating the facts that are available on the school's website is not being a booster, it's stating facts. I could say that my DH works for a university too, and says that Sidwell kids say that it is a mean spirited place where kids are only out for themselves, or STA says they are one thing, but once you get there, it's nothing like they promised, or NCS sucks the personality and soul out of the young women there in a mean girl extravaganza,  but none of that would be true, or all of it could be true. It's one child's experience--and one child's experience is not everyone's experience.  Do kids have amazing experiences at their schools. You bet. Do kids have miserable experiences at their schools sometimes? Of course--it's called life.

So, in the end, why this bitterness about schools we have no personal experience with? It's similar to the Sidwell Head of School thread--a bunch of 'information' being tossed around with no personal experience, all gossip, and no constructive purpose.

Enjoy the snow today! [/quote]

Hey, I like what you did there!  Under the guise of calling for an end to bitterness, you recirculated the nastiest stereotypes about other independent schools in DC.  Very slick.  [/quote]

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