Anonymous
Post 08/31/2019 14:53     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If your kid is unmotivated but loves to play on their phone instead of doing work, Maret is the perfect place. The upper school admin will go out of their way not to inconvenience your child.

I thought Maret was a pressure cooker


Not on any sense of the term


+1 Never heard that about Maret.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2019 10:11     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If your kid is unmotivated but loves to play on their phone instead of doing work, Maret is the perfect place. The upper school admin will go out of their way not to inconvenience your child.

I thought Maret was a pressure cooker


Not on any sense of the term
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2019 07:03     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
It really doesn’t matter OP, DC isn’t going to get in anyway and will end up as a janitor like public school kids.
Anonymous
Post 08/31/2019 00:23     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:If your kid is unmotivated but loves to play on their phone instead of doing work, Maret is the perfect place. The upper school admin will go out of their way not to inconvenience your child.


What a bizarre post. My DD chose Maret over GDS 2 years ago specifically because the kids at GDS were distracted and using their phones during classes on two different shadow days. Honest story....I haven’t a clue where PP is coming from, maybe the land of denial?
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2019 22:39     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:If your kid is unmotivated but loves to play on their phone instead of doing work, Maret is the perfect place. The upper school admin will go out of their way not to inconvenience your child.

I thought Maret was a pressure cooker
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2019 22:08     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
If your kid is unmotivated but loves to play on their phone instead of doing work, Maret is the perfect place. The upper school admin will go out of their way not to inconvenience your child.
Anonymous
Post 08/30/2019 21:24     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Maret, perhaps. Not the other 2.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2019 09:54     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:OP - if you go this route, your DD will never be motivated to do anything. I'm guessing you are one of those parents who do everything for her, including her homework. Going to one of these snooty private schools will only exacerbate her sense of entitlement, and you will wake up one day with a 27 your old toddler living in your basement. Send her to public school where she will have to take responsibility for herself and not have people telling her how perfect, special, and better than everyone else she is. Guessing you won't though, because you will need to brag to your friends about where she goes to school to assuage your own sense of inadequacy.


Spoken like an ignoramus with huge class envy. Enjoy your poverty of spirit!
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2019 09:48     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:OP - if you go this route, your DD will never be motivated to do anything. I'm guessing you are one of those parents who do everything for her, including her homework. Going to one of these snooty private schools will only exacerbate her sense of entitlement, and you will wake up one day with a 27 your old toddler living in your basement. Send her to public school where she will have to take responsibility for herself and not have people telling her how perfect, special, and better than everyone else she is. Guessing you won't though, because you will need to brag to your friends about where she goes to school to assuage your own sense of inadequacy.


We've never had our school tell DS these things and we certainly don't?!
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2019 09:02     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
OP - if you go this route, your DD will never be motivated to do anything. I'm guessing you are one of those parents who do everything for her, including her homework. Going to one of these snooty private schools will only exacerbate her sense of entitlement, and you will wake up one day with a 27 your old toddler living in your basement. Send her to public school where she will have to take responsibility for herself and not have people telling her how perfect, special, and better than everyone else she is. Guessing you won't though, because you will need to brag to your friends about where she goes to school to assuage your own sense of inadequacy.
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2019 08:46     Subject: Re:Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Which of these schools have the most cats?


FINALLY someone asked a relevant and useful question.
Thank you, pp. ?
Anonymous
Post 08/28/2019 08:03     Subject: Re:Maret, Sidwell or GDS
If dd is not motivated, scrap Sidwell.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2019 22:47     Subject: Re:Maret, Sidwell or GDS
I would consider Burke and Field. Both have SOME very highly motivated kids but both also have more laid back kids.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2019 21:30     Subject: Re:Maret, Sidwell or GDS
Not Maret-they don't have their own playing fields, and there's a lot of discontent from its surrounding neighborhoods because they were awarded a sweetheart deal for exclusive rights to use a DC public park for their sports without going through a competitive bidding process.

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-bowser-private-schools-should-not-have-exclusive-rights-to-public-fields-makejelleffpublic?recruiter=1000133193&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=sms&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_abi&utm_term=share_petition&recruited_by_id=80a548f0-c78e-11e9-be24-7db67d90b55a&share_bandit_exp=abi-17484774-en-US&share_bandit_var=v0
Anonymous
Post 08/24/2019 16:06     Subject: Maret, Sidwell or GDS
But that is not what OP asked, oh insecure one.