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Anonymous wrote:These kids have to go to private school somewhere. Most families do not want to schlep across the bridge to DC or MD. That leaves a small handful of private high schools for these kids. So why are Potomac, Madeira, Episcopal, etc always either dismissed or treated with disdain? These schools have incredible facilities, academics and college placement.

What's up with the MD and DC snobbery?

And don't tell me they're all in FCPS, because that is just not true. FCPS is just as bad as MCPS or DCPS.

Because you can say that the sole reason you are going to private school from DCPS is academics with a straight face. Traditionally, it's a lot harder to say the same thing coming from NoVA or MoCo. The Virginia schools are great ways for wealthy parents to send their kids to a school where they will mingle with other kids who have wealthy parents, but highest level academics are at the public schools.

You must not be familiar with the clown show that FCPS has become; it’s a failing public school system and no parent with means sends their children to FCPS.

Please say more about what’s wrong with FCPS. I’m considering leaving private for FCPS but just starting my process of learning more about FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:These kids have to go to private school somewhere. Most families do not want to schlep across the bridge to DC or MD. That leaves a small handful of private high schools for these kids. So why are Potomac, Madeira, Episcopal, etc always either dismissed or treated with disdain? These schools have incredible facilities, academics and college placement.

What's up with the MD and DC snobbery?

And don't tell me they're all in FCPS, because that is just not true. FCPS is just as bad as MCPS or DCPS.

Because you can say that the sole reason you are going to private school from DCPS is academics with a straight face. Traditionally, it's a lot harder to say the same thing coming from NoVA or MoCo. The Virginia schools are great ways for wealthy parents to send their kids to a school where they will mingle with other kids who have wealthy parents, but highest level academics are at the public schools.

You must not be familiar with the clown show that FCPS has become; it’s a failing public school system and no parent with means sends their children to FCPS.

Anonymous wrote:The really smart kids in NoVa are at TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:These kids have to go to private school somewhere. Most families do not want to schlep across the bridge to DC or MD. That leaves a small handful of private high schools for these kids. So why are Potomac, Madeira, Episcopal, etc always either dismissed or treated with disdain? These schools have incredible facilities, academics and college placement.

What's up with the MD and DC snobbery?

And don't tell me they're all in FCPS, because that is just not true. FCPS is just as bad as MCPS or DCPS.

Because you can say that the sole reason you are going to private school from DCPS is academics with a straight face. Traditionally, it's a lot harder to say the same thing coming from NoVA or MoCo. The Virginia schools are great ways for wealthy parents to send their kids to a school where they will mingle with other kids who have wealthy parents, but highest level academics are at the public schools.

You must not be familiar with the clown show that FCPS has become; it’s a failing public school system and no parent with means sends their children to FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:These kids have to go to private school somewhere. Most families do not want to schlep across the bridge to DC or MD. That leaves a small handful of private high schools for these kids. So why are Potomac, Madeira, Episcopal, etc always either dismissed or treated with disdain? These schools have incredible facilities, academics and college placement.

What's up with the MD and DC snobbery?

And don't tell me they're all in FCPS, because that is just not true. FCPS is just as bad as MCPS or DCPS.

Because you can say that the sole reason you are going to private school from DCPS is academics with a straight face. Traditionally, it's a lot harder to say the same thing coming from NoVA or MoCo. The Virginia schools are great ways for wealthy parents to send their kids to a school where they will mingle with other kids who have wealthy parents, but highest level academics are at the public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:We wanted a Jesuit high school. NoVA doesn’t have one.

NoVA has massive catholic high schools. The space for a Jesuit school to thrive is narrow- catholic parents who prefer it to avoid schools (and pay far more to do so) under the diocese or non-catholic parents who want a jesuit school. To the extent these parents exist, they are already sending their kids to Jesuit high schools in DC

FYI There is only on Jesuit high school in DC (Gonzaga).

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Anonymous wrote:We wanted a Jesuit high school. NoVA doesn’t have one.

NoVA has massive catholic high schools. The space for a Jesuit school to thrive is narrow- catholic parents who prefer it to avoid schools (and pay far more to do so) under the diocese or non-catholic parents who want a jesuit school. To the extent these parents exist, they are already sending their kids to Jesuit high schools in DC

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

You sound like an angry TJ parent who also has no social skills. Sorry your kid won’t get into an Ivy because they never learned how to make eye contact with an adult

Hit a nerve, I see.


Well, everyone sees it.

NP.

I think I'll be ok. I'll continue to give the TJ kids who stare at their shoes while chewing their fingernails a "do not admit" after our interviews. Maybe one will get through with this in their file but it hasn't happened yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

You sound like an angry TJ parent who also has no social skills. Sorry your kid won’t get into an Ivy because they never learned how to make eye contact with an adult

Hit a nerve, I see.


Well, everyone sees it.

NP.

I think I'll be ok. I'll continue to give the TJ kids who stare at their shoes while chewing their fingernails a "do not admit" after our interviews. Maybe one will get through with this in their file but it hasn't happened yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

Alumni interviewers are pathetic losers whose input is inconsequential to the admissions process. Colleges allow it only for alumni relations, and alumni do it only to feel important and relive what they think are their glory days.

You sound like an angry TJ parent who also has no social skills. Sorry your kid won’t get into an Ivy because they never learned how to make eye contact with an adult

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Anonymous wrote:Every single kid at TJ easily holds his or her own the the best privates in DC and Maryland. And each graduating class at TJ is as Big as the Big 3 graduating classes combined. And it’s free. Between that and Potomac NOVA is served just fine.

TJ kids are great at taking tests, but would not survive socially at the top privates. They don’t focus on social skills at TJ.

That’s funny.

I do a bunch of interviewing for my college and in general I find the TJ kids brilliant but socially awkward

The ones I've had were really interesting and well-spoken. I interviewed one this cycle that had a really unusual extracurricular that we talked a lot about.