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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Both schools have bright, intense students. Both are high pressure, but STA has more moderating elements. Faculty are very engaged and caring at STA; they are invested in the success of every student. Sidwell teachers on the whole seem more detached. [b]At Sidwell if a child needs help, it's their job to reach out to the teachers. At STA if a child needs help, the teacher might reach out to the child. [/b][/quote] The bolded is called self-advocacy. Students should have a sense of where they are and if they need help, to be proactive about it. Bosses and college professors won't coddle, the earlier the students learn it, the better. And yes, the college counseling at Sidwell was a disaster a few years ago. They have 5 staffers now headed by a true pro, so it ended up at a better place because of it.[/quote] This self-advocacy line is BS that is just made up by commenters on this message board. It is not actually what Sidwell touts. And that should not be a surprise, because suggesting that 14 and 15 year old kids should need to beat down a teacher's door to get help or advice because that's the way it will be in college or a job is hardly a selling point for a high school. Instilling relationships where young adults see that authority figures can be invested in them and their success, and developing meaningful mentoring relationships with them, is actually a much better way for them to learn self-advocacy. Because you learn how to experience that type of relationship and how it can benefit you. And when the relationship doesn't exist, you know what to ask and advocate for. PP's comment about Sidwell teachers is a fair characterization when talking generally (there are some exceptions) and it is a glaring weakness of the school.[/quote]
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