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Anonymous wrote: K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

One could argue k-12 is for people who have no confidence their kid could compete for their ninth grade seat and win it on merit and so lock in at k. The lifer’s life is easy as long as the kid keeps their nose clean.

Exactly. I’m not sure it’s possible to figure out which 5 year old could get into Sidwell and which one has to “settle” for Norwood or St Pat’s, outside of edge cases primarily based on very atypical behavior.

Sent our kid to very good local publics and then a Big 3 and this thread is just making me laugh and laugh. Oh the money those people wasted on fancy elementary schools.

Sure you did.

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Anonymous wrote: K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

One could argue k-12 is for people who have no confidence their kid could compete for their ninth grade seat and win it on merit and so lock in at k. The lifer’s life is easy as long as the kid keeps their nose clean.

Exactly. I’m not sure it’s possible to figure out which 5 year old could get into Sidwell and which one has to “settle” for Norwood or St Pat’s, outside of edge cases primarily based on very atypical behavior.

Sent our kid to very good local publics and then a Big 3 and this thread is just making me laugh and laugh. Oh the money those people wasted on fancy elementary schools.

You’re not paying attention.

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Anonymous wrote: K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

One could argue k-12 is for people who have no confidence their kid could compete for their ninth grade seat and win it on merit and so lock in at k. The lifer’s life is easy as long as the kid keeps their nose clean.

Exactly. I’m not sure it’s possible to figure out which 5 year old could get into Sidwell and which one has to “settle” for Norwood or St Pat’s, outside of edge cases primarily based on very atypical behavior.

Sent our kid to very good local publics and then a Big 3 and this thread is just making me laugh and laugh. Oh the money those people wasted on fancy elementary schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

Only 6 going to W schools. Such a waste of tuition!

If the only reason you chose the K-8 is for the end result of the upper school you deem worthy, I wonder why you didn't do k-12? You really think that your money was wasted on all of those years? That seems so misguided to me. Or maybe you are joking?

These are the same people who only care about the upper school if it gets their kid into a college they deem worthy. They don’t care about education; they care about status/the bumper sticker they can put on their car.

+100. The irony is that these people are too short-sighted to see that if their kids are happy in high school, their chances of getting into top colleges are actually higher. They fixate on the wrong things. Please send your kid to a high school that wants them and will make them happy. The rest will take care of itself.

St. Pat parent here. Went through high school application process and are very pleased with how the school knew our kid and thought about where he would be happiest. We didn’t apply to SA or Sidwell, knowing they wouldn’t be a good fits. Super happy with his HS options and decision. This is the benefit of k-8: a better sense of who your kid is and what makes him/her happy for HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

Only 6 going to W schools. Such a waste of tuition!

If the only reason you chose the K-8 is for the end result of the upper school you deem worthy, I wonder why you didn't do k-12? You really think that your money was wasted on all of those years? That seems so misguided to me. Or maybe you are joking?

These are the same people who only care about the upper school if it gets their kid into a college they deem worthy. They don’t care about education; they care about status/the bumper sticker they can put on their car.

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Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

Only 6 going to W schools. Such a waste of tuition!

If the only reason you chose the K-8 is for the end result of the upper school you deem worthy, I wonder why you didn't do k-12? You really think that your money was wasted on all of those years? That seems so misguided to me. Or maybe you are joking?

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Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

Not everyone wants to send their child to Sidwell/NCS/STA. Why is that so hard for some of you to grasp?!?

Yes, we get it, Bullis parent. We are just saying if Jude going to spend $50k at a school, spend it where you will get more mileage for your money.

We're not fake-rich so we don't worry about that.

Anonymous wrote:Six going to the Big 3. That’s it. A lot of tuition down the drain.

Only 6 going to W schools. Such a waste of tuition!

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Anonymous wrote: K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

One could argue k-12 is for people who have no confidence their kid could compete for their ninth grade seat and win it on merit and so lock in at k. The lifer’s life is easy as long as the kid keeps their nose clean.

Exactly. I’m not sure it’s possible to figure out which 5 year old could get into Sidwell and which one has to “settle” for Norwood or St Pat’s, outside of edge cases primarily based on very atypical behavior.

Anonymous wrote: K-8. Always for those who can't get into k-12. You can always leave your k-12 but you're stuck in 8-9th transition in a competitive city. Posts prove it every year at all the k-8.

One could argue k-12 is for people who have no confidence their kid could compete for their ninth grade seat and win it on merit and so lock in at k. The lifer’s life is easy as long as the kid keeps their nose clean.