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Anonymous wrote:Lots of mean kids. Ridiculously simplistic 9th grade physics. Weak STEM overall. Strong English and Latin. Bad advisory.

How many schools teach physics in 9th? Inky a handful. Most start w bio They do that to correlate w algebra so it has to be a bit more simple. There is AP physics that can be taken as a senior

Anonymous wrote:Lots of mean kids. Ridiculously simplistic 9th grade physics. Weak STEM overall. Strong English and Latin. Bad advisory.

Anonymous wrote:Lots of mean kids. Ridiculously simplistic 9th grade physics. Weak STEM overall. Strong English and Latin. Bad advisory.

Anonymous wrote:There's one person on this board that had a kid there in lower school and they did not like it. Since then, they post on every single FH thread with not just "meh, we didn't like it" but with repeated, multiple replies about how it's awful, terrible, so so bad..

I have a kid in the upper school. They have very advanced classes for very advanced kids. Lots of Nysmith students go here. My kid is sporty and academically average, they have classes and sports for him. Some kids are artsy, they have an amazing arts, dance, and theatre program. Their robotics program is top notch, they beat colleges in competitions. Their latin department is the best in the region.

They have students from Maryland, Alexandria, DC, all over Northern Va. It's exceptionally diverse which matches the diversity of the areas the students come from.

Do I care how the school came to be? No. We all live in America right? We all know how this country came to be. It's not stopping you from living here.

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Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

We're a FH family and I've never heard of the founder so idk what glorification the poster is referring to.

FH gets dogged on this site because it's a school who accepts a variety of learners, not just the 95%+ SSAT performers. Our experience is that FH isn't an academic pressure cooker. Kids are free to be high flyers, straight up average, or have supports from the learning center as needed. I don't know all the matriculation data from last year, but I do know one kid got into Harvard and another kid this year scored a 1600 on his SAT, so the school isn't filled with dummies and Ivies must think it can properly prepare students for their hallowed halls regardless what posters on DCUM think.

This comment about not being an academic pressure cooker is very true. We have a freshman there, new to FH this year. Very happy so far! The school has been incredibly welcoming. There are a multitude of clubs and activities. There is the intense academic path if that is right for your child, but there are also less intense paths and spaces in between. Our child is very smart but is more artistically inclined. FH has incredible visual and digital arts classes. And socially our son has said it was easier to make friends in the last month at FH than in the previous five years at his past private school. Very happy. People on this board are nasty about FH and glorify other schools that I did not find very impressive. To each their own

That's right, and some of us prefer a better education than Flint Hill can provide.

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Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

We're a FH family and I've never heard of the founder so idk what glorification the poster is referring to.

FH gets dogged on this site because it's a school who accepts a variety of learners, not just the 95%+ SSAT performers. Our experience is that FH isn't an academic pressure cooker. Kids are free to be high flyers, straight up average, or have supports from the learning center as needed. I don't know all the matriculation data from last year, but I do know one kid got into Harvard and another kid this year scored a 1600 on his SAT, so the school isn't filled with dummies and Ivies must think it can properly prepare students for their hallowed halls regardless what posters on DCUM think.

This comment about not being an academic pressure cooker is very true. We have a freshman there, new to FH this year. Very happy so far! The school has been incredibly welcoming. There are a multitude of clubs and activities. There is the intense academic path if that is right for your child, but there are also less intense paths and spaces in between. Our child is very smart but is more artistically inclined. FH has incredible visual and digital arts classes. And socially our son has said it was easier to make friends in the last month at FH than in the previous five years at his past private school. Very happy. People on this board are nasty about FH and glorify other schools that I did not find very impressive. To each their own

That's right, and some of us prefer a better education than Flint Hill can provide.

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Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

We're a FH family and I've never heard of the founder so idk what glorification the poster is referring to.

FH gets dogged on this site because it's a school who accepts a variety of learners, not just the 95%+ SSAT performers. Our experience is that FH isn't an academic pressure cooker. Kids are free to be high flyers, straight up average, or have supports from the learning center as needed. I don't know all the matriculation data from last year, but I do know one kid got into Harvard and another kid this year scored a 1600 on his SAT, so the school isn't filled with dummies and Ivies must think it can properly prepare students for their hallowed halls regardless what posters on DCUM think.

This comment about not being an academic pressure cooker is very true. We have a freshman there, new to FH this year. Very happy so far! The school has been incredibly welcoming. There are a multitude of clubs and activities. There is the intense academic path if that is right for your child, but there are also less intense paths and spaces in between. Our child is very smart but is more artistically inclined. FH has incredible visual and digital arts classes. And socially our son has said it was easier to make friends in the last month at FH than in the previous five years at his past private school. Very happy. People on this board are nasty about FH and glorify other schools that I did not find very impressive. To each their own

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Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

We're a FH family and I've never heard of the founder so idk what glorification the poster is referring to.

FH gets dogged on this site because it's a school who accepts a variety of learners, not just the 95%+ SSAT performers. Our experience is that FH isn't an academic pressure cooker. Kids are free to be high flyers, straight up average, or have supports from the learning center as needed. I don't know all the matriculation data from last year, but I do know one kid got into Harvard and another kid this year scored a 1600 on his SAT, so the school isn't filled with dummies and Ivies must think it can properly prepare students for their hallowed halls regardless what posters on DCUM think.

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Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.

Off the top of my head, GDS and WIS were not segregation academies.

Why do you think this?

GDS was proactively integrationist, right?

YES! It was founded in 1945 as an integrated school.

Maybe so, but let’s be honest here. There were very few Black kids at GDS, much less than the were in the DCPS the GDS students would have been zoned to attend, and many of the students were there so they didn’t have to interact with the Black kids in the public schools.

There are/were fewer children (of any race) who attend private vs. public school in this country becuase...it costs money. In many cases, private school costs a lot of money and most Americans simply cannot afford the tuition.

"M]any of the students were there so they didn’t have to interact with the Black kids in the public." How do you know the motivations of Black parents who sent their children to GDS in the 1940s and 50s? Were you a student at GDS at that time? What an aggressively ignorant and fact-free thing to say. You must be a FH parent.

Not a FH parent, I just know a little about history and what was going on during the time. White families were leaving public schools in droves during that time because they didn’t want to be integrated. Private schools were in higher demand and schools like GDS couldn’t take all the families who didn’t want to intergrate with Blacks so many new independent schools popped up around the time FH was established. This is a fact and if you do a little research, you will understand.

“Private schools were in higher demand and schools like GDS couldn’t take all the families who didn’t want to intergrate with Blacks so many new independent schools popped up around the time FH was established.” Why would families that didn’t want to integrate with Blacks want to attend GDS…an intentionally racially integrated school?

You sound stupid, and you know nothing about this history. Back away from the keyboard.

Because 1% or less Blacks is the type of integration they were content with and opposed to integrating with higher numbers.