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Anonymous wrote:In my experience the obnoxiousness of the parents is in inverse proportion to the amount of money they have. However it is the ones with money that are feted by those who run the school because they're caught up in a never ending chase for cash.

I found the wealthy at Stone Ridge very polite and of course, disinterested in everyone except each other. They have their own caste at events. Their girls are part of the community, pretty much. Without a doubt, the wealthy families who give are feted. That’s true at every private school in my experience. However, I’ve never encountered a code of silence like Stone Ridge parents and administrators inflict on parents they decide are not “part of the community.” Takes the cake in the “that’s some real White people sh—“ category. I am White btw. Falls into Nathaniel Hawthorne.

I don't know what you are talking about. Please speak English.

Anonymous wrote:In my experience the obnoxiousness of the parents is in inverse proportion to the amount of money they have. However it is the ones with money that are feted by those who run the school because they're caught up in a never ending chase for cash.

I found the wealthy at Stone Ridge very polite and of course, disinterested in everyone except each other. They have their own caste at events. Their girls are part of the community, pretty much. Without a doubt, the wealthy families who give are feted. That’s true at every private school in my experience. However, I’ve never encountered a code of silence like Stone Ridge parents and administrators inflict on parents they decide are not “part of the community.” Takes the cake in the “that’s some real White people sh—“ category. I am White btw. Falls into Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Anonymous wrote:if you go there you have to say you love it, if you don't go there and go to another school they will look down on you.

average academics average sports, swim team is top notch

the parents were the worst lots of frat dads and the moms well like all schools they are the moms.

Interesting I never thought of this school as being like this as we have considered it for our daughter but now that you mention it the three families I know that have kids there in middle school all fit this description but it is more the wives that are caught up in being in the right club and caught up in the social stuff.

The social thing is really important to those families that care about that stuff. Fortunately there are plenty of families that don't buy into it.

Many families don’t buy into the social stuff because they don’t feel welcome. There are insider and outsider families at Stone Ridge. Many of the Catholics go to Church together. They share family ties. Read the Vanity Fair article about Georgetown Prep and the Kavanaugh fiasco. Stone Ridge comes up, that’s SR’s “brother school.” By the way, after Kavanaugh we (at least) received a survey from SR that we could fill out anonymously, but it’s always better to use our own voices (identify yourself). It was a detailed voting history. An in-depth political profile sent to me and my husband individually. First question: What Presidential candidate did you vote for in the 2016 election?

Stone Ridge needs a new Head of school.

and an excellent public HS.^^

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Anonymous wrote:That list could be any public school in any state minus the 100k the parents paid out.

Perhaps partially true, but those students you mention would not be as prepared for success nor such a promising future. Fact.

A meaningless generalization that is patently untrue.

+1 as a parent of graduates of top area Catholics HSs and an excellent HS. Accepted at many of the same colleges, succeeded just as well at the same colleges and upon graduation from same. Really, the only difference that mattered was how much one wants the Catholic faith to be an integral part of school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if you go there you have to say you love it, if you don't go there and go to another school they will look down on you.

average academics average sports, swim team is top notch

the parents were the worst lots of frat dads and the moms well like all schools they are the moms.

Interesting I never thought of this school as being like this as we have considered it for our daughter but now that you mention it the three families I know that have kids there in middle school all fit this description but it is more the wives that are caught up in being in the right club and caught up in the social stuff.

The social thing is really important to those families that care about that stuff. Fortunately there are plenty of families that don't buy into it.

Anonymous wrote:if you go there you have to say you love it, if you don't go there and go to another school they will look down on you.

average academics average sports, swim team is top notch

the parents were the worst lots of frat dads and the moms well like all schools they are the moms.

Interesting I never thought of this school as being like this as we have considered it for our daughter but now that you mention it the three families I know that have kids there in middle school all fit this description but it is more the wives that are caught up in being in the right club and caught up in the social stuff.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That list could be any public school in any state minus the 100k the parents paid out.

Perhaps partially true, but those students you mention would not be as prepared for success nor such a promising future. Fact.

Define success.

Public schools prepare kids for success.

Sure, in a Lord of the Flies kind of way.

Don’t kid yourself. Some all girls schools around here are very similar. Maybe worse.

Anonymous wrote:That list could be any public school in any state minus the 100k the parents paid out.

Oh please not I could not. We have kids in both public and private and adore from maybe 10-12 outliers in public that place well, the rest do not.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That list could be any public school in any state minus the 100k the parents paid out.

Perhaps partially true, but those students you mention would not be as prepared for success nor such a promising future. Fact.

Define success.

Public schools prepare kids for success.

Sure, in a Lord of the Flies kind of way.

MCPS is a dumpster fire, which is why we left. I have no interest in reading anything on that forum.

Anonymous wrote:It's so strange to me that any topic on the private school forums can turn into some public school parents posting about why public school is as good / better. I start with the assumption on the private school forum that we have chosen to send our kids to private school and don't need to justify that to anonymous posters. The question here was about the reputation of a specific school.

Why not spend your time on the trying to conceive forum and tell them no one should procreate?

A poster made a comment that students from private schools are better prepared for "success" than students from public schools. People are responding to that comment. Nobody is asking you to justify anything. As for your final paragraph I'm not even sure what that is supposed to mean.

.....So true

It's so strange to me that any topic on the private school forums can turn into some public school parents posting about why public school is as good / better. I start with the assumption on the private school forum that we have chosen to send our kids to private school and don't need to justify that to anonymous posters. The question here was about the reputation of a specific school.

Why not spend your time on the trying to conceive forum and tell them no one should procreate?

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Anonymous wrote:That list could be any public school in any state minus the 100k the parents paid out.

Perhaps partially true, but those students you mention would not be as prepared for success nor such a promising future. Fact.

A meaningless generalization that is patently untrue.