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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]8:39 - Thank you again for taking the time to share some of your experience with GP.  It has been some of the most helpful insight I have recieved.  May I ask what are some of your complaints about the school?  And in your opinion what, if anything, they could do to improve the school especially in the academic area?[/quote]

Complaints?

I thought the faculty at GP had too much power. Too much of a voice. Led by a core of long-tenured veterans they seemed to be running the place. The result was bigger salaries and fewer classes to teach. I would have preferred to see more younger teachers cycle through; especially recent GP grads. I thought that would have given more energy to the place and maybe raised the academic bar for the students in the middle and at the bottom of the class. That problem appears to be being solved through recent retirements and departures. They needed to clean house in some of the departments. I can't say this ever slowed down the top students.

While some see teacher turnover as a negative, I thought that GP should have found a way to thin out the herd of teachers who had retired in place.

My second concern would be in the area of who gets admitted to GP. For many years, GP sought out and admitted and gave financial aid to the brightest from the many Catholic grammar schools. So smart kids from modest economics means raised the level of the classes. With the hangover from the recent large expenditures in facilities and the strain this has put on budgets --- especially the financial aid budget --- I'm concerned that we may see more rich, dumb kids and fewer smarter kids who need financial aid.

It was a wonderful experience for our boys. There was never a day they weren't straining at the bit to get to school. And the relationships built there go on after. I believe that in Washington, its more important where you go to high school than where you go to college.  High school is where your life-long friendships are formed. Wedding albums almost always contain photos of the GP grads attending in a group shot with the groom.[/quote]

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