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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reviving a 2 year old thread to plug BISW?  School must be short on enrollment. Everyone knows it’s one of the worst privates in DC. No admissions standards. Everyone gets in. People leave as soon as they can for other schools.[/quote]

A two year thread had been revived. Here are my two cents:

American family here who decided to switch to BISW. There aren’t that many of us as a percentage of the total student body but I can see that every year, we are getting more families. My wife and I are both private school graduates and the universities we went to both was full of kids coming from private schools from around the country. Our three kids were attending another one of the recognized private school in DC. Almost all of our neighbors send their kids to private schools as well. With all this background and knowledge, we settled for BISW in the end for all our 3 kids. Our main reason was to get away from the helicopter parents who are ignorant yet highly judgmental (familiar?) and raise equally ignorant, entitled, judgmental kids who have infested many of our private schools. BISW is a much healthier environment and as some other posters have said, the British quality of education taught here is much more advanced compared to what we were getting in other schools. The kids are high achievers and competitive but the competition is healthy, bullying is far less of a problem and our kids do not suffer from the mental health problems that some of our friends and neighbors complain about at some other schools.

I personally think that (a) having school uniforms; (b) having a very diverse student body with many cultures and nationalities; and (c) having a large transient student body contribute to making this a healthier environment for the kids and families. Even if there are some bad apples and bullies, they are usually gone before you know it.

This may make making lifelong friends difficult but my high schooler is still in touch with her friends who left BISW three years ago and, in fact, last summer, we went to visit them in Romania. So, with today’s technologies and modes of communication, I’m not sure how much of an issue this is.

Bottom line, the school may not be for everyone, but for those seeking some of the things our family was looking for, it may be worth taking a second look.

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