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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Can you elaborate on upper school pressure? I think you might mean academic pressure.[/quote]

Yes academic pressure. Unfortunately the school has experienced too many losses as a result in recent years. [/quote]

It's a competitive private. The academic pressure is no different at NCS, St. Albans, Sidwell (insert name of top private). If you think that isn't the case at the Big 3 or any of the top privates or boarding schools, you are kidding yourself.

Average students in any top private will likely struggle and feel an immense Potomac is no different in this regard...; If you want a low pressure academic environment, you should look at some of the lower tier privates in this area that are not as academically rigorous and not as hard to gain entry into. [/quote]

This.  Academics become more intense and ramp up with every year.  This is what gives Potomac good college admissions results but you can't have it both ways.

Kids change.  It's kind of on the parent to see if a school continues to be a fit or whether an adjustment needs to be made.  Not always easy to get it right when picking a school for a kindergartener or a fourth grader, and that's okay.  Is it the case that pressure at Potomac is different from the schools named above (and probably a couple others in the area)?  Families at all these schools need to be ready to pivot if it isn't working.

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