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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so happy to have happened across this forum. As a WES parent, I feel vindicated. I see my initial thoughts about the school, which I have been keeping bottled up inside all school year, are true. WES claims to be a "nurturing" school, but that cannot be any further from the truth. There is indeed bullying, only it's a little more covert than the cases you hear in the media. The children can be overly pretentious, bossy and mean-spirited to any child that doesn't exactly fit the "WES Way." My daughter is very eccentric, extremely outgoing and unfortunately has parents who don't exactly have a million dollar income -- those children spotted her a mile away. Unfortunately, the teachers and administrators can get caught up in elitist behaviors too. They definitely cater to and stroke the more wealthier families (and their children, no matter how ill-mannered they may be). These are things I observed this year as a first-time WES parent. For months I struggled with talking to other parents to see if I was crazy or my feelings were actually true. The sad thing is WES parents are extremely clique-ish. If you're not part of the club, forget about it. It's very much a good ole boy environment. Just one parent's opinion.[/quote]

"Pretentious, bossy and mean-spirited".  Yes, that is exactly what we experienced at WES.  Please note throughout this message board that everyone tacitly admits that all the classes thin out or there is almost 100% turnover but no one asks "why?"  That is not the norm at other solid pre/K-8 grade schools.  Parents leave because they can.  Those that can't place out, stay.  The school does not counsel out the disturbed, so that each year's class is formed around separating the particularly difficult children instead of simply counseling them out.  WES cannot afford to counsel anyone out.  Students leave ASAP and the school cannot fill all the slots so the classes get sparse in the latter years and it is the oddball students or those who could not place out who are left in the remaining tiny 8th grade class.  This school is simply not worth the money.  If it was, wouldn't the 8th grade class be full?  Why is everyone leaving?  (obnoxious third and fifth grade teachers and "pretentious, bossy and mean-spirited" students).  Or get in and get as quickly as possible as everyone else has.  No way is it nurturing.   That's their cover ("Be Kind"  really?) for its peculiar punitive nature because it wants so hard to be a feeder to ncs/STA  but isn't.  I wouldn't call it "good ole boy" school but it certainly is clique-ish, both on the parent and child levels, and parents (mothers) are expected to really donate time.  The school is also confused over WHAT it is because of its name.  Note, not a single poster asked if it is Christian (no), Episcopalian (no - not affiliated with any local parish) or what?  What is its mission? It doesn't know.  WES is simply not worth the money when there are so many other options in DC and MD.[/quote]

Sad, but true.  I pulled my DS out.  The school was not worth the money and we weren't impressed by the parent community.  Very cliquish all around.[/quote]

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