Anonymous
10/07/2020 16:05
Subject: Maret or GDS
Maret may have a small student body but GDS’s physical plant is pretty tight quarters now that they are all on the same city block.
Anonymous
10/07/2020 15:03
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.
LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.
This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.
Seems like it would be harder at a small school like Maret. There isn’t anywhere to go if you don’t fit in the school mold.
All of DC areas private schools are fishbowl size. 80-140 person classes, and way smaller in earlier years
Except at John’s, they can field a decent team or club in anything. 250 a class.
As for fit, a few schools are non stop about their non-academic mission and grooming. Maret is not one of them, in fact a couple progressives make other progressives look traditional.
They are teaching a class on microaggressions this year.
Anonymous
10/07/2020 14:55
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.
LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.
This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.
Seems like it would be harder at a small school like Maret. There isn’t anywhere to go if you don’t fit in the school mold.
All of DC areas private schools are fishbowl size. 80-140 person classes, and way smaller in earlier years
Except at John’s, they can field a decent team or club in anything. 250 a class.
As for fit, a few schools are non stop about their non-academic mission and grooming. Maret is not one of them, in fact a couple progressives make other progressives look traditional.
Anonymous
10/07/2020 10:13
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.
LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.
This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.
Seems like it would be harder at a small school like Maret. There isn’t anywhere to go if you don’t fit in the school mold.
Anonymous
10/07/2020 09:46
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.
LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.
This is a myth, especially for non upper schools.
My advice would be not to apply to any school that seems extreme in a way you are not. It’s very hard to keep holding your nose 4-8 years.
Anonymous
10/07/2020 09:37
Subject: Re:Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:If you think politics dominates everything at Maret, you must not have visited GDS. GDS takes it to a whole other level. Maret more similar to Sidwell in this regard.
Agreed on this point... and I say this with no negativity at all (being a bleeding heart liberal, myself).
Anonymous
10/07/2020 09:28
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Either is great. The key is getting in. Good luck.
LoL. So right. Get your kid into both schools and then come back here and ask.
Anonymous
10/07/2020 06:34
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Aw man, I’m still writing in Bernie.
Don’t like Trump and as a rape victim am not voting for Biden.
Just don’t tell Maret admin!
Anonymous
10/06/2020 13:32
Subject: Maret or GDS
Aw man, I’m still writing in Bernie.
Don’t like Trump and as a rape victim am not voting for Biden.
Don’t like Trump and as a rape victim am not voting for Biden.
Anonymous
10/06/2020 11:35
Subject: Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:You threw away your vote. You couldn’t make a decision between the first and second horses so you picked one way behind.
Don’t do it in the nov election. Same for jo Jorgensen libertarians. Make a real decision, make your vote count.
Thanks for the much needed laugh!
Anonymous
10/06/2020 10:29
Subject: Re:Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you think politics dominates everything at Maret, you must not have visited GDS. GDS takes it to a whole other level. Maret more similar to Sidwell in this regard.
I’d have thought it would be tough to beat having a Maret senior admin official tell me that because I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary I was a Trump supporter.
They love group think disguised as "woke."
Anonymous
10/06/2020 09:56
Subject: Maret or GDS
You threw away your vote. You couldn’t make a decision between the first and second horses so you picked one way behind.
Don’t do it in the nov election. Same for jo Jorgensen libertarians. Make a real decision, make your vote count.
Don’t do it in the nov election. Same for jo Jorgensen libertarians. Make a real decision, make your vote count.
Anonymous
10/06/2020 09:39
Subject: Re:Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:If you think politics dominates everything at Maret, you must not have visited GDS. GDS takes it to a whole other level. Maret more similar to Sidwell in this regard.
I’d have thought it would be tough to beat having a Maret senior admin official tell me that because I voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary I was a Trump supporter.
Anonymous
10/05/2020 15:00
Subject: Re:Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:If you think politics dominates everything at Maret, you must not have visited GDS. GDS takes it to a whole other level. Maret more similar to Sidwell in this regard.
+1000
to whomever is confused here, there may be internal politics going on anywhere, but the constant leftist politics found mentioned above makes it an insufferable echo chamber.
Check out how “outsiders” feel: read what the school proudly put out in the student newspaper. And no, the supposed academics don’t make up it.
Anonymous
10/05/2020 14:58
Subject: Re:Maret or GDS
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you think politics dominates everything at Maret, you must not have visited GDS. GDS takes it to a whole other level. Maret more similar to Sidwell in this regard.
Correct that’s why we didn’t even bother. We are desperately trying to keep at least one of our children’s feet in the real world.
In a DC private? That’s ambitious.