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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NCS is a traditional by the books no nonsense education.  Both great schools but [b]the girls at NCS can chew the girls up at Sidwell any day of the week[b].[/b]  [/quote]

I'm not sure whether the poster meant this in regard to academics, but I will say that my sons, who graduated from Sidwell, always said the NCS girls were frighteningly Type A.   [/quote]

Did you try to start a productive conversation with your sons about not stereotyping girls who are open about being smart or ambitious?[/quote]

I am openly smart and highly ambitious, and I understand that there is a difference between that and being a mean girl who placed herself, her needs and her wants above others and who is blinded by ambition.   Not at all to say that that is what girls are like at that school, but it's a strawman argument to imply a boy is sexist and does not respect  Smart, openly ambitious women because he recognizes that some people are  frighteningly type a. [/quote]

Does it seem like a fair statement to widely label all the girls at a specific school as "frighteningly type A"?  Sounds like stereotyping to me.  I don't have children at either school but have met terrific kids from each school.  I don't think a mother posting that her sons think all the girls at another school are all "frighteningly type A" is a helpful or insightful statement, and I do think that when a child puts a broad label on an institution ("all kids at School X do drugs," "everyone at School Y is a lacrosse meathead," "everyone at School Z is frighteningly Type A"), it's good for a parent to push back at that kind of stereotyping, rather than just posting the adolescent observations as if they are gospel. [/quote]

I don't like stereotyping and we're agreed on that.  It's just as stereotyping though to imply that the girls are simply openly smart and ambitious, and that the earlier poster's son needs to be taught that.  [/quote]

If you're fine with denigrating all girls who go to a specific school on the assessments of a poster's two teenage boys who go to another school, I don't think we do agree on stereotyping.[/quote]

The bolded is an excellent point.[/quote]

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