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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to beat a dead horse but I am perplexed why you can't see there is a cultural difference between the two schools. I don;t know anyone who has been in both of them who doesn't agree with that.[/quote]

This is 9:27, and my first post since then. To be clear, I never suggested that there were no cultural differences between the schools.   Indeed, I posted a list of some specific differences earlier.  My objection was only to posting of misinformation about either school. But these days I would argue that except for what you call your teachers, the dress code, and the obvious secular v religious affiliation, St. Andrew's in many ways has more in common with both GDS and Maret, on the one hand, and with Field and Burke, on the other, than those two groupings of schools have with one another although some might say they are all progressive to varying degrees while St Andrew's is not. My kids came from an official progressive school before St Andrew's, and transitioned very easily.  Sure, it seemed odd at first not to call most teachers by their first names, but the kids quickly adjust and think it seemed odd that they used to do so.  Again, I am talking about transitions in middle or high school.  I think there are more clear distinctions in the lower elementary school years.. While I am sure somewhere there are still more traditional teaching methodology schools -- somewhere -- I think most of this traditional vs progressive debate these day are distinctions in search of real differences in the teaching in many schools. [/quote]

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