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[quote=Anonymous]This article is infuriating for two reasons. First, it conflates one jerk parent with parents who break the law – and please cite specific examples of other bad SFS parents. I keep hearing about this one perfect storm anecdote but only vague rumors.

Second, it ignores the fact that the SFS counselor in question sucked. Sucked. And Patrick hired him, heard complaints about him in his first year, and either didn’t do a good enough job re-training him or didn’t re-train him at all.

My kid had the counselor in question (CIQ) this year. He was terrible. He was sloppy, failed to spell-check emails, missed self-imposed deadlines, failed even to provide suggestions for reach schools, and responded to direct questions from our kid with vague, hedged bromides. But he was eager to suggest schools with profiles way below our kid’s SAT scores and in areas of the country that were of no interest! In other words the CIQ offered no sound, direct, strategic advice. He wanted our kid to do the easiest thing and aim really low to make [i]his [/i]life easier. And, no, our kid was not shooting for Ivies.

NO parent would be happy with CIQ. Not at SFS or any public school. Patrick hired him; good riddance to both of them.

My DS and I paid more than $160,000 these past four years and, believe me, SFS ran our kid ragged. SFS even made the f!cking pottery class a graded course – yet one more thing for kids to stress about. We never expected Ivies would be a fait accompli. All we wanted was for the CIQ to do a professional job. Instead, he was [i]literally [/i]the worst employee – the worst experience – our kid had in upper school.

One more thing. Bryan Garman needs to go as well. SFS is just bouncing from scandal to scandal – anti-Semitic kids to imploding college counseling department – and embarrassment to embarrassment. Can’t raise any money for the Washington Home which most parents think was an ill-considered acquisition anyway. And there’s still a ton of turnover among the mediocre administrative ranks (Patrick, MS principal, LS principal, AD). He can’t fundraise and he can’t run the school smoothly so he brings nothing to the table.[/quote]

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