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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The current 8th grade class, rising 9th, is lovely. We’d be happy to have your children join us and I bet you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the wonderful community. [/quote]

Not the girls.  And I know because I had a kid in that class.

- Signed, an SSSAS parent

PS - to the posters who have received admissions for the US.  The school should have had a current parent call you to welcome you to the school and answer any parent to parent questions.  If someone has not called you by now, reach out to the admissions office and asked to be paired to a liaison. [/quote]

Well, this scares me; my rising 9th grade daughter is on the verge of accepting.  What are the issues you observed?[/quote]

Well I don’t know if this is any different from 8th grades at other schools.  That being said, there is a core group of very mean “popular” girls that love to invoke “8th grade priority” to 7th and 6th graders, especially in the halls, bathrooms and one particular staircase. There has been quite a bit of intragrade girl drama, I do know of one family specifically moved (not just changed schools) because their daughter was getting bullied so bad at school and online. One girl in particular is almost being pushed to leave but I think her parents are still keeping her there. There have been many friend dramas.

My kid has not been affected by it and she likes her friends there and academically has had a great year so for now we are staying.  But the current 8th (and even somewhat the 7th) grades have intense girl drama.  Is that just a function of being 13, maybe.  But for another poster so say this grade is so amazing and nice is just lying.  [/quote]
Speaking from experience (as a former SSSAS family), this is the case in many grades there. It is not typical or let to root to such an extent at other schools. We were warned about this from other former families but got sucked in and then regretted it. Yes the whole admissions dept is lovely but that’s not who runs the school or teaches or anything else. They are solely salespeople. [/quote]

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