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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I liked everything about Shepherd: its demographics, its test scores, its traditionalism--even its uniforms.

And it was a disaster for us. It is not the first time I have said this, but it is a deeply conventional school. Not with the teachers or the administration, but with the other families, and their expectations. If you have a child or a family that does not quite fit its mold... it is not a nice place. At all. Just in terms of the other kids. That was our experience, and one I heard from other families. I remain very pro-Shepherd because I think that the things it does well it does awesomely, but it is also a school that carries all the baggage of its time and place, and that baggage has to be accounted for. I'm not a huge fan of progressive education--I prefer the Shepherd model--but the Shepherd model had my child being attacked constantly for being different--and that was not so great.

Shepherd Elementary made me realize that DC is a very conservative town and that kids who don't fit the mold are always going to be shunned. [/quote]

I think there is a lot more to this story than you are letting on. You clearly think your child is super unique and special and when the others kids didn't think so, you assumed the school was failing to provide the emotional support needed.[/quote]

Hardly. Are you that mom on the playground who yelled at me for correcting her son after he hit my kid? You sound just like her. As I said at the time, I only told your son the same thing I told my own child: work it out. Were you less high maintenance and insecure, our kids might have become friends.

Instead, your kid continued to bully and harrass mine. With your blessing.

My family and my children have always tried to work with the community we're in. There are lovely people at Shepherd. And a few really horrible ones. [/quote]

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