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Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

This is laughable. Madeira? Yeah, go ride your pony. WIS? Er, not even close. GDS is loosely goosey, maret hung up on social correctness, Potomac is spot on academic, Hilton Arms as well. Sidwell is closer to the top of the list. Where is NCS or St Alban’s ? Or St Anselm’s?

OP has a girl, so the drop the boys' schools from the list.

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Anonymous wrote:i appreciated this more when you wanted your child crushed by college.

Well I didn’t want to say it, but I do want her taken down a notch in high school. It’s a big world and she needs to know it.

I came from a small town, local “whiz kid” and my elite college destroyed me that I think my life would have been better at my state public university. Being on your own and failing at everything when everyone seems to find it so easy, not a good place.

I’ll be the one to say it 😬

Feels like you may have some unresolved issues.

Don’t thrust those onto your own kids.

Hah I do. But my kid is full teenager and so arrogant about how smart they are. It drives me nuts. I mean, maybe she is really brilliant and hard working? But I want to test her mettle before she has to head out on her own. Her MS experience has not done that.

NP: I think you are on the right track, personally. My kids went from being tops at what we felt was a too-easy school where they developed lazy study habits to a HS known for rigor. My kids didn't know what hit them. Worked twice as hard and got much worse grades. College is super easy for them now, they know the difference between smart and had working, and they have a pretty good perspective one who is hard working and who is a never-been-tested blow hard.

We remain shocked at the slow pace and amount of coddling of students at our DC-based lower school. We mistakenly thought “top” DC private schools would be like their counterparts in NYC or LA. But no.

No tests, no graded or corrected work, no standards or expectations for math or spelling accuracy year after year, tons of time on feelings, no exposure to different disciplines or industries.

Maybe the kids learn percentages and % correct in 7th grade…

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Anonymous wrote:WIS is in a league of its own. I wouldn’t put it as least rigorous at all. The kids there are doing the prestigious International Baccalaureate program and several of them do it in two languages. The kids get into a lot of Ivy colleges and other top schools worldwide. There is no more academically challenging program that an IB program, with exception to the STEM specific schools.

BCC, a public school, offers the Int’l Baccalaureate. WIS needs to get over itself, it’s basically an expensive public school for international government workers at WB & IMF.

+1

Anonymous wrote:WIS is in a league of its own. I wouldn’t put it as least rigorous at all. The kids there are doing the prestigious International Baccalaureate program and several of them do it in two languages. The kids get into a lot of Ivy colleges and other top schools worldwide. There is no more academically challenging program that an IB program, with exception to the STEM specific schools.

BCC, a public school, offers the Int’l Baccalaureate. WIS needs to get over itself, it’s basically an expensive public school for international government workers at WB & IMF.

We were so happy our child isn’t at GDS or Maret. Academics front and center at their school. Children in DC are sophisticated and don’t need identity politics in school because this basically is a tolerant generation. Guilt by adults who want to shove such thinking down kids’ throats

Anonymous wrote:I’d put WIS at the bottom. Holton-Arms has been declining over the last 5 years.

+1 Maret is also in decline.

I’d put WIS at the bottom. Holton-Arms has been declining over the last 5 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

This is laughable. Madeira? Yeah, go ride your pony. WIS? Er, not even close. GDS is loosely goosey, maret hung up on social correctness, Potomac is spot on academic, Hilton Arms as well. Sidwell is closer to the top of the list. Where is NCS or St Alban’s ? Or St Anselm’s?

Agree.

We can’t take yet another year of Identity Projects for an hour+ a day, every day, every year. Kid is sick of it. And aware there’s other things they should be learning as their sibs are in actual academic schools.

Why isn’t your WIS kid in an “actual academic school”?

Am in a different 3-letter acronym school. Is WIS 24/7 identity politics too?

GDS right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

This is laughable. Madeira? Yeah, go ride your pony. WIS? Er, not even close. GDS is loosely goosey, maret hung up on social correctness, Potomac is spot on academic, Hilton Arms as well. Sidwell is closer to the top of the list. Where is NCS or St Alban’s ? Or St Anselm’s?

Agree.

We can’t take yet another year of Identity Projects for an hour+ a day, every day, every year. Kid is sick of it. And aware there’s other things they should be learning as their sibs are in actual academic schools.

Why isn’t your WIS kid in an “actual academic school”?

Am in a different 3-letter acronym school. Is WIS 24/7 identity politics too?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

This is laughable. Madeira? Yeah, go ride your pony. WIS? Er, not even close. GDS is loosely goosey, maret hung up on social correctness, Potomac is spot on academic, Hilton Arms as well. Sidwell is closer to the top of the list. Where is NCS or St Alban’s ? Or St Anselm’s?

Agree.

We can’t take yet another year of Identity Projects for an hour+ a day, every day, every year. Kid is sick of it. And aware there’s other things they should be learning as their sibs are in actual academic schools.

Why isn’t your WIS kid in an “actual academic school”?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

This is laughable. Madeira? Yeah, go ride your pony. WIS? Er, not even close. GDS is loosely goosey, maret hung up on social correctness, Potomac is spot on academic, Hilton Arms as well. Sidwell is closer to the top of the list. Where is NCS or St Alban’s ? Or St Anselm’s?

Agree.

We can’t take yet another year of Identity Projects for an hour+ a day, every day, every year. Kid is sick of it. And aware there’s other things they should be learning as their sibs are in actual academic schools.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

This is laughable. Madeira? Yeah, go ride your pony. WIS? Er, not even close. GDS is loosely goosey, maret hung up on social correctness, Potomac is spot on academic, Hilton Arms as well. Sidwell is closer to the top of the list. Where is NCS or St Alban’s ? Or St Anselm’s?

Anonymous wrote:WIS is in a league of its own. I wouldn’t put it as least rigorous at all. The kids there are doing the prestigious International Baccalaureate program and several of them do it in two languages. The kids get into a lot of Ivy colleges and other top schools worldwide. There is no more academically challenging program that an IB program, with exception to the STEM specific schools.

The WIS college admissions are fantastic this year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Per your request, here is the definitive, objective, inarguable, uncontestable, and incontrovertible ranking (in order of most to least rigor):

Madeira
WIS
Potomoc
Maret
Holton Arms
GDS
Sidwell

Lol. This must be upper school only. Definitely not our experience in “rigor” in lower school or even most of middle school.

I am sure this was meant as a joke. I would flip the list for its proper order.