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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But Field has the potential to surpass GDS and Maret with its campus and the growing demand for a progressive HS alternative. [/quote] It's kind of a collective action problem. Neither Field nor Maret has the academic cohort you find at GDS, Sidwell, or NCS/STA. I would have loved a lower pressure (and especially a non-AP alternative) to those HSs. I looked for one (and knew of another family who did as well). We each concluded our kid wasn't going to have many academic peers anyplace else in DC. Some of it may be scale, but another part of it is cultural -- this area is a type-A environment and the parents of highly academic kids here seem to choose either science-oriented public magnets or private pressure cookers. There's not a critical mass looking for a more playful/creative/intellectual option. And if those who are scatter, then their numbers won't increase.[/quote]
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