Anonymous wrote:STA has a fundamental systematic problem. It’s going to take some time for it to turn around or they might not want to turn around. I agree with PP. it starts at the admission office. NCS teachers and admission officers look at your kids and evaluate them as kids without thinking too much about the skin colors. When they talk to you, they are interested in you as a person. I tell you, when you go to school tours with STA, if you are minority, you will feel it. They judge you. I heard many good things about their headmaster. God bless him for trying. But this is not a situation one super hero can change. It’s just systematic and it’s in most of their staff’s blood. It’s a private school and they probably have the right to keep it this way. As a parent, you have to make the best judgement call for your kids. I understand some PP stated the world is not fair and tough up. But, as a parent, I don’t think my kid deserves to be treated differently by skin colors, and grow their personality under this STA environment. Just NO!

Anonymous wrote:STA has a fundamental systematic problem. It’s going to take some time for it to turn around or they might not want to turn around. I agree with PP. it starts at the admission office. NCS teachers and admission officers look at your kids and evaluate them as kids without thinking too much about the skin colors. When they talk to you, they are interested in you as a person. I tell you, when you go to school tours with STA, if you are minority, you will feel it. They judge you. I heard many good things about their headmaster. God bless him for trying. But this is not a situation one super hero can change. It’s just systematic and it’s in most of their staff’s blood. It’s a private school and they probably have the right to keep it this way. As a parent, you have to make the best judgement call for your kids. I understand some PP stated the world is not fair and tough up. But, as a parent, I don’t think my kid deserves to be treated differently by skin colors, and grow their personality under this STA environment. Just NO!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. DC has one of the most wealthy and educated black populations of anywhere in America. Where are their kids going to school??

Sidwell, GDS, and Maret

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Anonymous wrote:I am in PG. Most of my social circle of accomplished parents (lawyers, doctors, scientists, corporate execs, business owners, non-profit execs, politicians, engineers, etc) are sending their kids to public charter/lottery schools in the county or to smaller mid-tier Catholic/Christian schools in PG or DC. Mine have been at a small private PreK-8 in PG but we are looking at schools that go through high school now and looking at all the various options including the elite schools. A few that I know pursue the big name privates but it is a much smaller percentage...like less than 10% of the folks I know apply to them or have children attending.

I find it hard to believe they are sending their kids to any county public school, be it regular or charter because the schools are horrible. We do a private in VA and we live in PG. My neighbor does one in Annapolis and a couple do local Christian schools. We do have a neighbor that had a child just graduate from Maret.

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Anonymous wrote:I am in PG. Most of my social circle of accomplished parents (lawyers, doctors, scientists, corporate execs, business owners, non-profit execs, politicians, engineers, etc) are sending their kids to public charter/lottery schools in the county or to smaller mid-tier Catholic/Christian schools in PG or DC. Mine have been at a small private PreK-8 in PG but we are looking at schools that go through high school now and looking at all the various options including the elite schools. A few that I know pursue the big name privates but it is a much smaller percentage...like less than 10% of the folks I know apply to them or have children attending.

I find it hard to believe they are sending their kids to any county public school, be it regular or charter because the schools are horrible. We do a private in VA and we live in PG. My neighbor does one in Annapolis and a couple do local Christian schools. We do have a neighbor that had a child just graduate from Maret.

Anonymous wrote:I'd add that when we look at moving to highly ranked public schools in another county, the population can be less diverse than some of the top private schools who at least benefit from students coming from all over the metro area vs who lives in the right zip codes.

Anonymous wrote:I am in PG. Most of my social circle of accomplished parents (lawyers, doctors, scientists, corporate execs, business owners, non-profit execs, politicians, engineers, etc) are sending their kids to public charter/lottery schools in the county or to smaller mid-tier Catholic/Christian schools in PG or DC. Mine have been at a small private PreK-8 in PG but we are looking at schools that go through high school now and looking at all the various options including the elite schools. A few that I know pursue the big name privates but it is a much smaller percentage...like less than 10% of the folks I know apply to them or have children attending.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. DC has one of the most wealthy and educated black populations of anywhere in America. Where are their kids going to school??

Sidwell, GDS, and Maret

And to public schoools in suburbs such as Fairfax County, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. DC has one of the most wealthy and educated black populations of anywhere in America. Where are their kids going to school??

Sidwell, GDS, and Maret

Anonymous wrote:I'm confused. DC has one of the most wealthy and educated black populations of anywhere in America. Where are their kids going to school??