Anonymous
Post 10/22/2013 14:56     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Bullshi$.


From the mom of a kid who scored a 99 on the WPPSI.
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2013 13:59     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I see that the GDS open house is not until mid-November and the Maret open house is not until mid-December. What thoughts do experienced GDS and Maret parents have regarding the wisdom of doing a tour BEFORE the open house?


Suggestions on what DS should wear for a tour of GDS?


Is this OP?
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2013 13:45     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:I see that the GDS open house is not until mid-November and the Maret open house is not until mid-December. What thoughts do experienced GDS and Maret parents have regarding the wisdom of doing a tour BEFORE the open house?


Suggestions on what DS should wear for a tour of GDS?
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2013 09:44     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Imagine is a terrible song. I mean, just listen to it.


agreed. It is musically uninteresting. The lyrics are slightly more interesting, but only slightly.


Rolling Stone ranked "Imagine" number 3 on its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation named "Imagine" the greatest song in the past 100 years as voted by listeners on the show 50 Tracks. Virgin Radio conducted a UK favorite song survey in December 2005, and listeners voted "Imagine" number 1. Australians selected it the greatest song of all time.

Jimmy Carter said, "in many countries around the world—my wife and I have visited about 125 countries—you hear John Lennon's song 'Imagine' used almost equally with national anthems."

But the anonymous moms and music critics of DC are NOT impressed.

Is your insight into private schools as flawed as your taste in music?
Anonymous
Post 10/22/2013 08:54     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:Imagine is a terrible song. I mean, just listen to it.


agreed. It is musically uninteresting. The lyrics are slightly more interesting, but only slightly.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2013 20:49     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:While good test scores are not indicative of brightness, bad test scores may indicate a lack of brightness. Most schools will use bad scores to weed out applicants.


Bullshi$.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2013 16:48     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
While good test scores are not indicative of brightness, bad test scores may indicate a lack of brightness. Most schools will use bad scores to weed out applicants.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2013 16:39     Subject: Re:What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Op, just read out your post to the admissions director when you visit and you will get all the help you need.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2013 15:23     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GDS is secular and can work well for bright kids who aren't interested in sports. Please don't nix your kid's chance of getting in by presenting him they way you did here. If he's smart, his test scores will indicate that. Focus on other things in the application and interview.


test scores only show so much


It's true that test scores only show so much, but if the scores aren't good, all the more reason not to oversell your kid's brights, so you don't come off as deluded, in addition to exasperating.


If test scores don't reveal the full extent of brightness, how would "not good" test scores make a belief in a DC's brightness "delusional?" Either the test scores are definitive or they are not.

Which area schools blindly (and mindlessly) rely upon test scores exclusively to assess brightness?


GDS and Maret do not reply on test scores alone.
Anonymous
Post 10/21/2013 06:36     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GDS is secular and can work well for bright kids who aren't interested in sports. Please don't nix your kid's chance of getting in by presenting him they way you did here. If he's smart, his test scores will indicate that. Focus on other things in the application and interview.


test scores only show so much


It's true that test scores only show so much, but if the scores aren't good, all the more reason not to oversell your kid's brights, so you don't come off as deluded, in addition to exasperating.


If test scores don't reveal the full extent of brightness, how would "not good" test scores make a belief in a DC's brightness "delusional?" Either the test scores are definitive or they are not.

Which area schools blindly (and mindlessly) rely upon test scores exclusively to assess brightness?
Anonymous
Post 10/20/2013 20:25     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a quote from John Lennon:

When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

I think it is true that most geniuses know that they are geniuses at a very young age, even if they are not recognized as such until much later in life. I highly doubt that John Lennon would have tested as a genius in a high school entry exam, but he was certainly a genius.


Great. He was also a druggie who beat his wife. What's your point?


You sound like some tea party kook who thought President Clinton was a bad leader because he got a bj from an intern. No one is flawless. The flaws stand out most in the highly gifted.


Whoever said JL was "gifted?"


Really? Questioning whether John Lennon was "gifted?"
Anonymous
Post 10/20/2013 19:43     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:GDS is secular and can work well for bright kids who aren't interested in sports. Please don't nix your kid's chance of getting in by presenting him they way you did here. If he's smart, his test scores will indicate that. Focus on other things in the application and interview.


test scores only show so much


It's true that test scores only show so much, but if the scores aren't good, all the more reason not to oversell your kid's brights, so you don't come off as deluded, in addition to exasperating.
Anonymous
Post 10/20/2013 15:11     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a quote from John Lennon:

When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

I think it is true that most geniuses know that they are geniuses at a very young age, even if they are not recognized as such until much later in life. I highly doubt that John Lennon would have tested as a genius in a high school entry exam, but he was certainly a genius.


Great. He was also a druggie who beat his wife. What's your point?


You sound like some tea party kook who thought President Clinton was a bad leader because he got a bj from an intern. No one is flawless. The flaws stand out most in the highly gifted.


And you sound like some 65 year old geezer desperately trying to relive his glory days!
Anonymous
Post 10/20/2013 15:06     Subject: What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a quote from John Lennon:

When I was about twelve, I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius — I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

I think it is true that most geniuses know that they are geniuses at a very young age, even if they are not recognized as such until much later in life. I highly doubt that John Lennon would have tested as a genius in a high school entry exam, but he was certainly a genius.


Great. He was also a druggie who beat his wife. What's your point?


You sound like some tea party kook who thought President Clinton was a bad leader because he got a bj from an intern. No one is flawless. The flaws stand out most in the highly gifted.


Whoever said JL was "gifted?"
Anonymous
Post 10/20/2013 10:03     Subject: Re:What have I overlooked among the DC area private schools?
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say
I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
and the world would live as one