Reply to If you live in McLean, would you send your child to Potomac school?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "If you live in McLean, would you send your child to Potomac school?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. We chose Potomac over the McLean public schools and are still happy several years in. We wanted a more progressive educational approach, and the class size and extras have been wonderful as well.

[/quote]

The pedagogy may be more progressive, but the families and student body give off a snooty vibe. We felt like [b]McLean was enough of a bubble already so we wanted schools that were more diverse[/b], at least in the upper grades.  [/quote]

Do you truly not realize what you are saying here?  If McLean is a bubble, then the PS in McLean are going to be a bubble as well.  Potomac School works to create diversity in its student body, as do all the elite privates, because they have the means and opportunity to do so.  Public schools cannot.  They have to accept the resident population.  Private schools can ensure the student population represents diversity of economic backgrounds, cultural backgrounds and race/color/creed.  Its one of the benefits of private school.  You have more homogenity of intellegence and behavior but not of anything else because they pull from a much, much larger geographical area.[/quote]

Not really. The McLean HS boundaries (unlike those at Langley) were drawn to pull in some lower-income areas in Falls Church near Lee Highway, as well as other areas in McLean, Falls Church and Vienna that have more diversity.  It felt more organic to us than a prep school full of mostly rich kids with a handful of low-income kids getting financial aid.

But I'll admit that [b]my perceptions of Potomac are shaped mostly by those in the immediate area who send their kids there.  Lots of talk about getting in if you know the "right people," charity auctions, and kids who wear Vineyard Vines most of the yea[/b]r.  For us, those negatives outweighed the potential advantages of more individualized instruction. [/quote]

Wow, PP, the only shallow and stupid person I see here is YOU.  What an assinine statement, especially basing character assasinations on clothing choices.  You need to grow the hell up.[/quote]

Character assassinations?  That's taking it a bit far, don't you think?

You sound awfully thin-skinned.  Makes us feel even better about the decision to go public. [/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