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Anonymous wrote:Our experience: amazing and engaged teachers who love to teach. Hands down awesome academics. But I found the social culture to be toxic. Overly permissive parents. Girls dress provocatively with no consequence. School admin seems disengaged. Too many kids. Has a Lord of the Flies feel. Wouldn't go if I had it to do over again.

What consequence do you think there should be for girls who "dress provocatively"?

Enforce the Dress Code: send kids home who violate it or make them wear a baggy sweatshirt that says "My parents allowed me to leave the house looking like I'm auditioning for a part in Pretty Baby."

Anonymous wrote:Our experience: amazing and engaged teachers who love to teach. Hands down awesome academics. But I found the social culture to be toxic. Overly permissive parents. Girls dress provocatively with no consequence. School admin seems disengaged. Too many kids. Has a Lord of the Flies feel. Wouldn't go if I had it to do over again.

What consequence do you think there should be for girls who "dress provocatively"?

IMHO, the administration at Frost does nothing to teach responsible use of technology, or appropriate dress, or inclusion. Lots of parents re-living their middle school angst by trying to have the most popular kids. Bar/Bat mitzvah scene is out of control--kids who were invited all wear their shirts on Monday after the weekend parties so it's abundantly clear who was/wasn't invited. Some girls stay home on Mondays so they don't have to face it. School. Does. Nothing. Cruel social-climbing parents and kids.

Add on an extreme pressure cooker, the likes of which we never saw growing up, aggressive and entitled boys, and you've nailed Wootton.

They do. No idea about the social or academic culture at Wootton, but again it's safe to assume that the teachers are amazing and engaged.

Anonymous wrote:Our experience: amazing and engaged teachers who love to teach. Hands down awesome academics. But I found the social culture to be toxic. Overly permissive parents. Girls dress provocatively with no consequence. School admin seems disengaged. Too many kids. Has a Lord of the Flies feel. Wouldn't go if I had it to do over again.

Doesnt thewhole group from Frost then go to Wootton? So is this how it is there too? Perspective buyer, which is why Im asking.

Our experience: amazing and engaged teachers who love to teach. Hands down awesome academics. But I found the social culture to be toxic. Overly permissive parents. Girls dress provocatively with no consequence. School admin seems disengaged. Too many kids. Has a Lord of the Flies feel. Wouldn't go if I had it to do over again.

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Anonymous wrote:I see they have a major teacher vacancy (dept head), which makes me curious what's going on there.

Nothing's going on, you alarmist.

Why have they had months to fill a department head position, but can't? It's higher pay.

Pay increase isn't a ton--but responsibility increase is.

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Anonymous wrote:I see they have a major teacher vacancy (dept head), which makes me curious what's going on there.

Nothing's going on, you alarmist.

Why have they had months to fill a department head position, but can't? It's higher pay.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire mindset at Frost (elitist) has to go. Glad this is our last year there.

PP, I am considering moving into a neighborhood zoned for Frost. Can you elaborate? Im coming from out of state so don't have local inside info.

Ignore the poster. Yes, there are snob parents and kids at Frost, just like there are at other schools. There are also down to earth and inclusive parents, as well as a million other types. Like we tell our kids to find their tribe, it's similar for the parents.

Thabks!

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Anonymous wrote:The entire mindset at Frost (elitist) has to go. Glad this is our last year there.

PP, I am considering moving into a neighborhood zoned for Frost. Can you elaborate? Im coming from out of state so don't have local inside info.

Ignore the poster. Yes, there are snob parents and kids at Frost, just like there are at other schools. There are also down to earth and inclusive parents, as well as a million other types. Like we tell our kids to find their tribe, it's similar for the parents.

Anonymous wrote:The entire mindset at Frost (elitist) has to go. Glad this is our last year there.

PP, I am considering moving into a neighborhood zoned for Frost. Can you elaborate? Im coming from out of state so don't have local inside info.

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Anonymous wrote:It is somewhat silly that a kid will go directly past Frost, directly past Hoover - to go to school at Cabin John. Only to come back to Wootton (which abuts Frost) for HS

Nobody goes past Frost to Cabin John.

Stone Mill ES kids do.

Anonymous wrote:It is somewhat silly that a kid will go directly past Frost, directly past Hoover - to go to school at Cabin John. Only to come back to Wootton (which abuts Frost) for HS

Nobody goes past Frost to Cabin John.

The entire mindset at Frost (elitist) has to go. Glad this is our last year there.