My DD is at SR and I can tell you that while there is a group of students who have frequent parties that likely involve alcohol, the smart high achievers at the top of the class are mostly not involved in that. I can't imagine my DD being able to keep up with her workload and be drinking every weekend.

no private school doesnt have drinking or partying culture. You are asking teens to not be teens

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Anonymous wrote:Is 10th an entry year for Madeira? Do they accept transfers mid year for 9th?

9th is the actual entry year, like any HS, but they accept transfers in 10th and 11th if there’s space. I don’t know about midyear. With their mod system, I would think midyear transfers would be particularly difficult, but you can always call and talk to them about it.

You can enter in 10th grade at Madeira, but there is typically only 1 entrant Junior Year.

I have heard of mid or during the year exits, but never mid or during the year entrants.

- Current parent

This is correct (although there might be 0 or a small handful of Junior year entrants, depending on year).

- A different current parent.

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Anonymous wrote:Is 10th an entry year for Madeira? Do they accept transfers mid year for 9th?

9th is the actual entry year, like any HS, but they accept transfers in 10th and 11th if there’s space. I don’t know about midyear. With their mod system, I would think midyear transfers would be particularly difficult, but you can always call and talk to them about it.

You can enter in 10th grade at Madeira, but there is typically only 1 entrant Junior Year.

I have heard of mid or during the year exits, but never mid or during the year entrants.

- Current parent

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Anonymous wrote:NCS and Holton girls party plenty, trust me. As others have said, it's all about what "friend group" your daughter chooses coupled with her own moral compass. Parents needs to do their jobs and not just blame it on the school. Be clear about your expectations and boundaries, and implement consequences.

Parents are often the problem. Kids that party and drink heavily often have parents who do so as well. They grow up in a family that puts great importance on social status, and for high schoolers that often involves partying. The worst of these parents are the ones who are absent and their houses are used for parties, or even host the parties themselves and allow and encourage underage drinking.

THIS👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
We are currently living in a cultural where the alcoholic mom who drinks mimosas for breakfast, Bellinis at lunch with the yoga moms, and a bottle after work to wind down from the kids is normalized, paraded on social media as something relatable if not aspirational and in full on display for our kids. Not to mention dad who’s always drinking, especially socially at business functions, dinners, at home.. a few beers, some shots.. adult drinks at kid birthday parties. The problem isn’t the drunk kids, they’re symptoms of their parents example.

Anonymous wrote:NCS is overwhelmingly non-partiers.

Agree with the others that you will find a few per grade at any school. What you want to avoid is a critical mass which is somewhat hard to predict because it varies by grade. However, they do seem to congregate at SR.

Haha that is so not true. I know of girls partying like crazy and drinking. On top of it the parents have no clue as they end up doing sleepovers at other friends homes where the girl's parents don't care as they have a fear that their child will be left out or won't have a social life.

Anonymous wrote:NCS and Holton girls party plenty, trust me. As others have said, it's all about what "friend group" your daughter chooses coupled with her own moral compass. Parents needs to do their jobs and not just blame it on the school. Be clear about your expectations and boundaries, and implement consequences.

Parents are often the problem. Kids that party and drink heavily often have parents who do so as well. They grow up in a family that puts great importance on social status, and for high schoolers that often involves partying. The worst of these parents are the ones who are absent and their houses are used for parties, or even host the parties themselves and allow and encourage underage drinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Elizabeth Seaton

Seton is notorious for being stoned and drunk party girls.

Lol, is it?? Doubtful.

My daughter is an upperclassman (11/12) at NCS. She doesn’t party (trust me, I know) but there are many girls who do and go hard. There is something for everyone at NCS and she doesn’t feel pressured about it.

Anonymous wrote:Is 10th an entry year for Madeira? Do they accept transfers mid year for 9th?

9th is the actual entry year, like any HS, but they accept transfers in 10th and 11th if there’s space. I don’t know about midyear. With their mod system, I would think midyear transfers would be particularly difficult, but you can always call and talk to them about it.

There is no such thing as a school full of identical kids. There is going to be a group of parties at every single school. And a group of non-parties. This is not rocket science. Or new. Or unique to this area.

AHC