Anonymous
03/22/2023 23:58
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
If you send your kindergarten child to a European boarding school, while you reside in DC, you clearly don’t like your child.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
There once was a thread that talked about boarding schools in Europe and they linked to one or two that started taking boarders as young as three. Can't remember the name but it was so insane and eye-opening.
Ecole Prefleuri in Switzerland: https://prefleuri.ch/
Answer: Because they don’t like their child and they don’t really want to be parents. I hope they save enough money for their child’s therapy bills (and possibly rehab).
This is the one! Wow. I’m trying to think why an extremely wealthy family would do this rather than getting a team of full time nannies.
Seems like the place Kim jong un would send his son to get a western education before grooming him back home to take over.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 22:13
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
If you send your kindergarten child to a European boarding school, while you reside in DC, you clearly don’t like your child.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
There once was a thread that talked about boarding schools in Europe and they linked to one or two that started taking boarders as young as three. Can't remember the name but it was so insane and eye-opening.
Ecole Prefleuri in Switzerland: https://prefleuri.ch/
Answer: Because they don’t like their child and they don’t really want to be parents. I hope they save enough money for their child’s therapy bills (and possibly rehab).
This is the one! Wow. I’m trying to think why an extremely wealthy family would do this rather than getting a team of full time nannies.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 22:10
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
If you send your kindergarten child to a European boarding school, while you reside in DC, you clearly don’t like your child.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
There once was a thread that talked about boarding schools in Europe and they linked to one or two that started taking boarders as young as three. Can't remember the name but it was so insane and eye-opening.
Ecole Prefleuri in Switzerland: https://prefleuri.ch/
This is the one! Wow. I’m trying to think why an extremely wealthy family would do this rather than getting a team of full time nannies.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 22:06
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC does have single sex in elementary:
Girls: Stone Ridge K-12, Brookewood K-12
Boys: Mater Dei 1-8, Avalon K-12, Heights (3rd-12)
PP- those schools aren't at the same level of rigor the top NYC single sex early elementary privates which aren't religious.
Maret (maybe like Riverdale too but in the city) and Sheridan and Norwood which are both progressive aren't listed there. Maret is a more rigorous school than most but not as rigorous as NCS, St. Albans or Sidwell.
I'm simply correcting the misinformation posted above that DC has no single sex elementary schools.
PP here - none of those schools are in DC and aren't the level of rigor as the other NYC schools I listed except for maybe Stone Ridge.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 20:14
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC does have single sex in elementary:
Girls: Stone Ridge K-12, Brookewood K-12
Boys: Mater Dei 1-8, Avalon K-12, Heights (3rd-12)
PP- those schools aren't at the same level of rigor the top NYC single sex early elementary privates which aren't religious.
Maret (maybe like Riverdale too but in the city) and Sheridan and Norwood which are both progressive aren't listed there. Maret is a more rigorous school than most but not as rigorous as NCS, St. Albans or Sidwell.
I'm simply correcting the misinformation posted above that DC has no single sex elementary schools.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 19:05
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:DC does have single sex in elementary:
Girls: Stone Ridge K-12, Brookewood K-12
Boys: Mater Dei 1-8, Avalon K-12, Heights (3rd-12)
PP- those schools aren't at the same level of rigor the top NYC single sex early elementary privates which aren't religious.
Maret (maybe like Riverdale too but in the city) and Sheridan and Norwood which are both progressive aren't listed there. Maret is a more rigorous school than most but not as rigorous as NCS, St. Albans or Sidwell.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 19:02
Subject: New York
DC does have single sex in elementary:
Girls: Stone Ridge K-12, Brookewood K-12
Boys: Mater Dei 1-8, Avalon K-12, Heights (3rd-12)
Girls: Stone Ridge K-12, Brookewood K-12
Boys: Mater Dei 1-8, Avalon K-12, Heights (3rd-12)
Anonymous
03/22/2023 18:45
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
Typical small minded NYC response. I really just know my little eight blocks....
LOL! I am certain you are a suburban cul-de-sac soccer mom who has only ever visited NYC on a dreaded public school class bus trip.
Dayum. You a beyotch.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 18:41
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
Typical small minded NYC response. I really just know my little eight blocks....
LOL! I am certain you are a suburban cul-de-sac soccer mom who has only ever visited NYC on a dreaded public school class bus trip.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 18:38
Subject: Re:New York
I'm from NYC. Welcome to DC! Definitely fewer options, especially in single-sex k-12s
Brearley / Spence / NB - NCS
Collegiate - St. Albans
Dalton / Trinity / Horace Mann - Sidwell and GDS, GDS is really progressive so may even be closer to St. Ann's, it's not a clear mapping to the NYCs schools but Dalton is probably closest to Sidwell if you set aside the Quaker aspect
Riverdale / Fieldston - Potomac
Chapin - Holton Arms
Calhoun - Field / Burke, maybe Burgundy Farms
Browning / Buckley maybe - Landon (although is 3-12)
Trevor Day / Columbia Grammar - maybe Bullis
Beauvoir is prek-3 and is the feeder school to NCS & St. Albans (Beauvoir kids get preference) which are single-sex although Beauvoir is co-ed. DC doesn't have single-sex options for early elementary.
DC also has different age ranges, like Primary Day ends in 3rd and National Presbyterian ends in 6th. St Patricks is a prek-8, so maybe like a co-ed Allan Stevenson?
Catholics are a whole separate post that I'm not as familiar with. Bilingual is really limited with WIS being the option (also comparable to UNOS), French Maternelle and German School aren't as academically good as the list above.
Another big difference is that feeder preschools aren't nearly as much of a thing. There are a few, NCRC and Little Folks for example, but it's not a guarantee of admissions to top schools, we intentionally didn't go that route to make ourselves more competitive.
Brearley / Spence / NB - NCS
Collegiate - St. Albans
Dalton / Trinity / Horace Mann - Sidwell and GDS, GDS is really progressive so may even be closer to St. Ann's, it's not a clear mapping to the NYCs schools but Dalton is probably closest to Sidwell if you set aside the Quaker aspect
Riverdale / Fieldston - Potomac
Chapin - Holton Arms
Calhoun - Field / Burke, maybe Burgundy Farms
Browning / Buckley maybe - Landon (although is 3-12)
Trevor Day / Columbia Grammar - maybe Bullis
Beauvoir is prek-3 and is the feeder school to NCS & St. Albans (Beauvoir kids get preference) which are single-sex although Beauvoir is co-ed. DC doesn't have single-sex options for early elementary.
DC also has different age ranges, like Primary Day ends in 3rd and National Presbyterian ends in 6th. St Patricks is a prek-8, so maybe like a co-ed Allan Stevenson?
Catholics are a whole separate post that I'm not as familiar with. Bilingual is really limited with WIS being the option (also comparable to UNOS), French Maternelle and German School aren't as academically good as the list above.
Another big difference is that feeder preschools aren't nearly as much of a thing. There are a few, NCRC and Little Folks for example, but it's not a guarantee of admissions to top schools, we intentionally didn't go that route to make ourselves more competitive.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 18:01
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
If you send your kindergarten child to a European boarding school, while you reside in DC, you clearly don’t like your child.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
There once was a thread that talked about boarding schools in Europe and they linked to one or two that started taking boarders as young as three. Can't remember the name but it was so insane and eye-opening.
Ecole Prefleuri in Switzerland: https://prefleuri.ch/
Anonymous
03/22/2023 17:54
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
If you send your kindergarten child to a European boarding school, while you reside in DC, you clearly don’t like your child.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
There once was a thread that talked about boarding schools in Europe and they linked to one or two that started taking boarders as young as three. Can't remember the name but it was so insane and eye-opening.
That’s crazy! A boarding school that takes three year olds is just an expensive orphanage.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 17:40
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
If you send your kindergarten child to a European boarding school, while you reside in DC, you clearly don’t like your child.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
There once was a thread that talked about boarding schools in Europe and they linked to one or two that started taking boarders as young as three. Can't remember the name but it was so insane and eye-opening.
Anonymous
03/22/2023 16:57
Subject: New York
Anonymous wrote:DC is the Minor Leagues compared to NYC. The private schools in NYC are much more elite and there are many more of them because there are many more people in NYC + many more filthy rich people in NYC.
Given that context, you would be better served with a European Boarding School. If you are truly stuck with DC choices, hire a private tutor or lower your standards to Beauvoir, Sidwell, GDS. Good luck with the southern/backwoods culture shock you will find here in the DMV.
Typical small minded NYC response. I really just know my little eight blocks....
Anonymous
03/22/2023 16:44
Subject: Re:New York
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why would you title your thread "New York" if you are moving to DC?
...aaaand welcome to DC!
It is a good question