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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm very happy at Maret. We're one of those families who don't qualify for aid, but finances are tight after tuition. We're very comfortable at Maret and it's a very low key school. The kids don't dress up for school and the parents are typically in jeans whenever that's an option. There are a lot of wealthy families and sometimes it's hard not to notice (like when you have a pool play date or something), but almost everyone makes an effort to avoid any conspicuous displays of wealth. [/quote]

Are you a Maret student?[/quote]

Only twice have I seen students whose behavior was so kind and considerate that I asked where they attended school:

1. At a Starbucks on Conn, a group of teenagers. They were from Maret.
2. At a field trip at a pumpkin patch, teachers & young students, Barnesville.

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That's very helpful (OP here).  This is the kind of information I want.  My DH and I were raised to behave that way, and that's what we want for our kids.  I've had good vibes about Maret and if we lived close enough we would do Barnesville in a heartbeat.  [/quote]

I disagree about Maret. It is an excellent school academically, but there is a lot of very visible wealth. It was not easy for my kids: we don't have extra $ (drive old, beat up cars, have old, beat up house, etc), and many of their peers were jetting of on Swiss skiiing holidays or flying off to spend long weekends at their palatial nantucket summer homes. Made my kids feel very poor. No one was mean about it, but there was a LOT of conspicuous wealth and consumption.[/quote]

I think you define down-to-earth differently than I do.  Lots of people, and thus families, in this area have a fair amount of wealth and go to the schools w are talking about:Maret, SFS, NCS/STA, GDS.  I don't expect people to live below their means to be down-to-earth. Please, take a Swiss ski vacation if you can and like, as long as you don't roll your eyes at my taking my kids to Liberty "mountain" an hour away.

Our Maret friends with wealth are just as down-to-earth as anyone else when it comes to not taking life too seriously, loving their kids, and enjoying all kinds of people from all walks of life.

And the proof is in the pudding, because the Maret grow up to be thoughtful and articulate and kind.[/quote]

This has been our experience as well as a moderate-income family at Maret. You've explained it perfectly. [/quote]

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