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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're the first person to ever compare Bryn Mawr to Tome. I can't imagine why anyone would look at both schools. If you're in Harford County, the only place where it might be feasible to be able to contemplate either school, there's Harford Day and John Carroll, which are more reliable options than Tome.

If the whole question of whether Bryn Mawr is "worth it" comes down to the schools' ideological stance towards gender matters, then it is definitely on the progressive side. Bryn Mawr's kindness and tolerance is going to be other people's foolish enability and injustice against girls. Like everything else in modern society, the private schools are sorting out on either side of the fault lines and there are other private schools that take a more traditional approach to gender identities, whether directly or indirectly.

County privates tend to be more pragmatic than the city privates. Except Park. You have plenty of options in the Baltimore area, minus Oldfields. [/quote]

Yes, Harford County.  Since you are familiar - Why do you feel Harford Day/John Carroll are better options than Tome?  Out of those three, I've heard the most positive things from Tome.  The reason we are looking at Tome and Bryn Mawr is simply that we're still early in this process and the financial side of things isn't really a major hurdle one way or the other.[/quote]

John Carroll is a great school if you want you kid to have a drug problem.  [/quote]

Which is said about every school, public or private.

If finances aren't an issue for OP, then the difference between Tome and a full fledged private like Bryn Mawr is going to be staggering. Quality of facilities, instruction, student body, the overall campus atmosphere. You'd want to visit all the schools and see for yourself.

Commuting from Harford to the Baltimore area schools is going to be rough. It's possible McDonogh may run a bus out to Harford. I'd also look at the Saint Pauls schools as they're right off the beltway. If you can't move closer in, then I'd probably look closely at Harford Day as a long established option that has sent graduates to the Baltimore area schools for HS. I know very little about Tome other than it is a resurrection of a much older boarding school that closed during the Depression. The only connection is the name. [/quote]

There's a bus at the Fallston Park and Ride that goes to the city privates.[b] I personally would worry about sending my young children on a 45 minute bus ride into Baltimore City.[/b] I mean,  I assume they take good care of the kids and all, but jeez.[/quote]

Bryn Mawr is literally walking distance from the city-county line.[/quote]

I'm looking at their bus route as I type this, and from the Fallston stop to Bryn Mawr is 43 minutes per the bus company. Fallston is Harford, not Baltimore County. Although it's right on the line.

It's a bit of a stretch. At least for young kids. I'm thinking about my 3 year old for kindergarten. That's an awfully long commute for her everyday. And depending on the age of the kids she's riding with, I could see that being not great, e.g., a bunch of 15 year olds talking about sex or something. I assume that all ages and all the schools are packed into one bus since there aren't as many people coming from my area.

I'd really like to make Bryn Mawr work, but it might not make sense until my daughters are a bit older. Maybe at like age 8? I don't know how other parents would feel about this. Im just thinking kindergarten and a 45 minute bus ride 2x daily wouldn't work. [/quote]

No school is worth that kind of commute. If you want to send your kid to a Baltimore school you should move, or stay where you are and stick to a Harford Co school. It's not as good, but so what. There are many factors that lead to success, school is just one of them.

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OP again, yeah this is kind of where my head is at. Hence, Tome School. It's not comparable to Baltimore independents, but they just aren't really feasible. If my choice is the local public schools or a no name but pleasant private school, I guess I'm choosing the latter. The public schools here get worse every year.

Also, if I'm being honest, if I were to move, it probably wouldn't be to Baltimore to pay 40k/year tuition. I'd just move north to the Unionville area, which has one of the best school districts in the country. [/quote]

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