Reply to St Jane de Chantal School in Bethesda

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "St Jane de Chantal School in Bethesda"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have children currently enrolled now? If so, are you all happy there?[/quote]

Not enrolled now but when DD and DS were there DD asked to leave for a better school. Not a lot of education going on in her opinion. DD got a much better foundation and education at another school. DS did too (though he liked boys at old school it was time for an education). The emphasis is definitely on the middle-lower level kids in the class academically. Surprised at # of boys on Ritalin (big class sizes). 
Also there were too many awful teachers - one distracted by family stuff all year, one who used tape recordings instead of teaching, a screaming lunatic, one teacher seemed to feed answers to kids on tests. Awful art classes. Who is running the place?

I hear they have some good new early teachers though. Band is good. Things like school plays are good. Christmas pageants are nice.

Parents at the school can be very enthusiastic about it but it's more for the parenting experience (volunteering at school or to coach sports) with each other than the education. We always thought it was strange that most parents were not more outraged by the low level education but they just weren't bothered by it.
Plenty of bullying that goes on too. School is just not able to get a handle on that time and time again (too big? Also, some parents seem to like it that way so no support for better).[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics