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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] I’ve been struck by the fact that of the several NCS grads I know, very few want to send their own daughter to NCS. 
This is different from the St. Albans grads I know who by and large do want their boys to go to St. Albans. Why such a difference?

Because NCS is HARD!!! 
It is not for everyone[/quote]

STA is also hard.  I believe the real answer is that the dynamics at an all girls’ school are just more difficult - not just at NCS, but many other girls’ schools. I have daughters who have attended various local girls’ schools, and they have tended to be be more “cliquey” with more conflict and competition.  STA has built a culture where most of the boys are driven to do their best, but they support each other and don’t wish for their classmates to do poorly. There are different groups, of course, but they seem to get along with each other.  I have always thought the rotating family lunch tables has a lot to do with this.[/quote]

I have high schoolers at both schools. Both are challenging. NCS is unnecessarily more difficult. [/quote]

NCS is much harder than STA.  I have high schoolers at both.  
At STA boys who work hard do well.  There is a direct correlation between doing the work and doing well. 
At NCS girls can do the work and study hard but then it's still a crapshoot whether or not she'll meet the standard because the standard is never given.  Or teachers just don't give As (at all).   It's just unnecessarily brutal.  [/quote]

Then why do you stay?  That's what I not understanding. Did NCS just get harder over the past few years or has it always been this way? [/quote]

because
1)my daughter is mid high school.  She has friends and is invested in the school.  It's really hard to pull a kid mid high school.  She likes many things about the school. 
2)let's say that a kid does pull out mid high school for public.  Her final transcript will have the NCS grade blemishes--but now without the NCS diploma.  So they have a public school diploma with B's.  Which is kind of the worse of all worlds. 
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