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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are you looking for?

NCS is the most rigorous all girls.
STA is the most rigorous all boys.
Sidwell is the most rigorous coed.

In the next tier you have GDS
Then Potomac
Then Maret

Bullis isn't that rigorous. If it's near your house and you want a less intense experience for your kid, it could be a good fit. Their teachers are not as credentialed. At NCS Upper School, most of the Social Science and English teachers have PhDs. You won't find that at Bullis, at least now widespread. Compare the faculty profiles.
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Huh. When I was at NCS, Dr. Clevenger was the only PhD in the science department, and all but one of my teachers was excellent (the exception was a woman hired last minute in summer who didn’t go through the regular process; turned out she was an absolute dud and was fired a few weeks into the fall). I guess they’ve started caring more about racking up the credentials than simply finding excellent teachers, regardless of the honorifics in front of their names. [/quote]

Where are you getting the idea that schools who hire PhDs aren't interested in hiring excellent teachers?[/quote]

When you put weight on the educational credentials it suggests that a PhD who is just a bit less excellent as a teacher is going to outrank someone with a masters who is a slightly better teacher, and who in turn is going to outrank someone with a bachelor's who is ecellenter than the master's degree teacher.

But a lot of these schools are selling an image along with an education, and a PhD is something that sounds good to their clientele and can be more easily pointed to in a marketing brochure. [/quote]

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