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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.[/quote]
Football rallies are more important than school for kids socially.  My shy daughter in A W school in pandemic started doing stuff on trampoline and mats watching tic tic videos for almost one year. To my surprise she begged to try out cheerleading and made it. She did the whole football season and every rally. She loved it. Honestly she will forget every class from 9th grade eventually but being a cheerleader was a huge deal. She practiced 20 hours a week. The Pom Pom girls practice too, and the players and coaches of course and heavy PTA involvement and the parents. It is called school spirit. It took a lot of guts for my daughter to attend school on Pep rally day in full uniform and make up on bus and perform a full routine in front of whole school at 14 with back flips that took a year to learn. [/quote]
Your response, is inane.[/quote]
How so? HS sports and other extracurriculars are an important part of adolescents' maturing. [/quote]

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