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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I guess you could move to Poolesville and send DC to Poolesville HS. The schools referenced are among the best in the country. Just because your brother did not have a good experience does not mean that the schools are not good.[/b]
Folks, One of the points of the whole HS whole experience is for students to evolve into the type of person who will succeed at the next level which could be college, military, vocational training, etc. If your kid  is an academic who seeks to attend the best colleges then your kid probably will want a school where he/she will be challenged academically, meet people outside of his/her normal circle of friends/family, and develop a specialty in a certain area such as athletics, art, etc. All the schools on the board are options but if you really want a school that will prepare you academically for the best colleges then you should check the stats listed above. IMHO, all the schools offer strong athletics, art, etc. Academics differentiate and when you school has not a single NMSF while Sidwell has over ten and the public schools  average 3-5% of the class, then you have to reassess the value of Bullis. Again, not a knock on the school but there are better options unless you are content to spend $140,000+ for your kid to barely make the cut at UMD.
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You entirely missed the point of my comments. The purpose of high school is not to get into college. The purpose of high school is to actually learn something. For some children (like my brothers), a W school isn't the right fit. Perhaps that is why their parents chose Bullis. After graduating from Wootton, one of my brothers never even went to college. If he had gone to a school that better inculcated a love of learning, I'm sure he would have gone on. He's a bright guy. It is incredibly presumptuous to proclaim that people who you don't even know are misspending their dollars. I only wish that my parents had been that stupid. [/quote]

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