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[quote=Anonymous]I wish I had known that, when your son inexplicably loses a soccer ball, you should not offer to go to look for it in the locker room during off-hours. The administration will not let you. STA is all about making the boys independent, and they put a lot of responsibility on the boys to find their own lost items, including making an announcement at lunch about it.

I wish I had known that you do not have to buy every item listed in the letter that the athletic department sends to new students. On the list was a pair of racing-style swim briefs, so I bought one. My son never needed it because he did not join the swim team.

I wish I had known that you cannot just volunteer for whatever you would like to do at the annual Christmas House Tour that raises money for the school or the annual Flower Mart taht raises money for the Close. Veteran parents have their pet volunteer positions or projects, and a newbie isn't going to be given those coveted spots without earning her stripes first. Newbies cook and bake.

I wish I had known that A-minuses are rather more common than at some other schools, and that you have to get virtually all A's or all A+'s to podium on Prize Day (top 9 out of class of 67 for the Lower School). If I had known, I wouldn't have had my camera poised for the picture when my DS didn't podium -- eek.

I wish I had known that STA really means it when they ask you not to give teachers Christmas presents but to donate toys in donation boxes instead. I didn't give presents, but I did agonize and feel funny about the "omission" until I got to know two STA veteran moms well enough to ask them, and they told me that gifts really are verboten. My DS tells me that the one time word got around that some boy had given a teacher an iPod, it was all the talk, in a bad way.

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