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[quote=Anonymous]What this and virtually every thread on related topics neglects to address is the gross negligence of some (admittedly not all) of the Washington elite school’s board of trustees and senior administration in perpetuating toxic cultures. Frequently the focus is on the “small but loud minority” of entitled, privileged, misbehaving families. This all results from a culture perpetuated by leadership, who consistently invite toxicity into their communities in the form of excessively influential,  privileged, entitled families.

Sure, I’m a “disgruntled parent of a waitlisted child,” who watched her well profiled children be politely but effectively rejected while noticing a years long pattern of lesser profiled children in our community from significantly more affluent families being accepted to the likes of Sidwell, GDS, and Maret. “Disgruntled?” Yes - but grateful as we ended up in a much less toxic and better balanced independent school environment where students and families thrive. A community we later learned is chosen by equally affluent families as the  elites, but unlike at the elites who seem better grounded in core values and who put the needs of others ahead of their own. A community we might never have known had our children been accepted at an “elite,” as we too would have blindly said yes to an acceptance.

The fact that these threads generate such vast participation without addressing the core problem of negligent leadership is a sign of the culture of exceptionalism perpetuated by some of the more prominent, selective Washington schools.[/quote]

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