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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I’d like to hear about people’s experiences there. Clearly from my original post, my excellent boy isn’t aiming to go to an Ivy League school, so I really don’t care about how many kids from Whitman end up at Harvard or whatever. What is the general atmosphere like there? Are the classes and teaching generally good? Is there a lot of bullying? Etc. I am not interested in debating if Whitman is on par with the privates. [/quote]

I have two kids at Whitman, a boy and a girl. It's crowded, noisy and chaotic. There are days wasted at school football rallies and "spirit days" "one Whitman" etc where you aren't allowed to leave early, and are patronized with the most obvious, boring lectures about diversity (yes we know we are diverse and these rules don't hold up in reality). Also the counselor allocated to my kids, is next to impossible to see - it's February and neither has managed to get an appt to see them.

The teaching is patchy - so while the syllabus is fairly consistent from class to class, you might have an ancient Algebra 2 teacher who is unclear, barely audible (due to a crowded, noisy class and mask wearing) and shuffling towards retirement, while in the next room you might have a highly engaged, excellent Algebra 2 teacher who has clarity and actually teaches.

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