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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a parent of a kid going to LS at Sidwell in September, I am now terrified, thanks.  I think it emphasizes our burden will be on helping keep college preoccupation in check, and leaving the school if the atmosphere seems toxic.

FWIW, I found Garman to be very level-headed and willing to talk through placement with (non-superstar or glamorous) parents like us.  And he talked a lot about the antisemitic events happening in US because he knew that LS admits had a lot of questions.  And he said to all the admits that thinking of private school as a means to an Ivy League end is an attitude that won't serve you well for the next 10 years.  This could be just lipservice but at least it's lipservice to the parents who may join the community (and still have a chance to go elsewhere if it's not what they want to hear).[/quote]

It's INSANITY. And you know what? In the end, it doesn't matter--this college rat race, students staying up until 3 in the morning doing homework to get into their 'dream school' that they just know they have to get into because parents and peers have drilled it into them that that's where they have to go and is the only route to success but they've been miserable the entire time. It's a bunch of baloney--kids get to college, are burnt out, unhappy, have a warped view of what success is, look around and think, "is this all there is? I literally wasted my youth being stressed out, over-worked, and focused on crap that really doesn't matter." And the posts from Sidwell parents on this thread, no matter how many try to say, "it's an isolated few", show exactly what the school stress is like for students and families. They represent exactly what Sidwell had built for itself, and now we'll see how that plays out. When the end game is success via stressed-out students, high-powered parents, and value placed on a result rather than focusing on the process, what will the ultimate result be?[/quote]

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