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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster here.  I feel like, lately, there are some pretty persnickety parents who keep insisting on turning these threads into referendums on the wonderfulness that is Field School.  I do not know the school well and so will not comment on its attributes except for one: it is really small.  We would never look at a school that small for our children unless they had a particular need for it.  That does not mean I am obsessed with Sidwell or NCS/STA, just that it is a major issue for may of us that already worry abut our kids being over-nurtured/over-coddled in private school. [/quote]

OK, I agree that I'm the other half of the reason this thread has focused on Field (you keep coming back as well). If you think Field is too small, then thats a good reason not to send your kid there. But thats very different from saying other parents would reach the same conclusion (only if my DC needed it) or that, as you wrote before, only kids who can't cut it at other schools go to Field. Field isn't for you, fine. Totally cool. But that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other parents who want to send their kids there for reasons other than nothing else works. You have some kind of issue about, as you put it, kids being over-coddled at private schools, that is leading you to draw all sorts of conclusions about Field that are really just a reflection of your own issues.

My DC came to Field from a smaller school. I can think of several smaller privates off the top of my head. Field is small but its not [i]that[/i] small. Most privates in this area are small. I always thought that was a big reason people sent their kids to private school.[/quote]

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