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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When my daughter had her admissions interview at Sidwell for HS, she asked about the relationship between students and teachers and was told by the interviewer (also a teacher), "teachers are not your friends".  Was such a weird response. [/quote]

But guess what....this is 100% true. It's sad.  They aren't your friends and most don't want to be your mentors or cheerleaders either. It's so unhealthy. It's like a bunch of PhDs who didn't get a tenure track job and never cared about educating teenagers decided that teaching at a school with prestige might help them save face...and then, even worse, must compete with one another to be the hardest of them all.[/quote]

Oh but it’s not all true. DC 1 in this story didn’t get in. DC2 in this story has some sort of issue-based bias in perception.[/quote]

I don't understand your response. I'm speaking to the fact that teachers, for the most part (sure there are exceptions), are not there to be mentors or leaders to teens. They tend more to be PhDs that are perpetuating the mantra "this is a hard school, if that's not for you, look elsewhere" and on top of it, they are competing with one another to get the badge of honor amongst themselves of "hardest teacher/class". Not speaking to anyone's DC's. [/quote]

Bless your heart.[/quote]

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