Anonymous wrote:Perfect timing with Amazon hq2. Potomac's status, growth and selectivity is on the rise, for sure.

Anonymous wrote:Perfect timing with Amazon hq2. Potomac's status, growth and selectivity is on the rise, for sure.

Anonymous wrote:Nor do you understand the term, evidently.

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Anonymous wrote:Not surprising. Have you ever been to their auction? Whole tables of parents will each give $10k on a whim.

As a parent considering the school, would you say that those who cannot do this are left out socially or otherwise? I mean, we would be full pay, but really just barely. There is no way we'd be throwing $10k around.

Not that I'm well versed in typical construction costs around here, but $70m seems an awful lot for a gym.

You'll be fine. For every Ted Leonsis - whom I have come across in work, charity events and their lovely children - there are families like you.

I am grateful for the donors - heavy hitters in tech, A&D, investment mgmt. Wouldn't blink to invite them over to my tiny colonial (except they are very busy working, running companies).

Great school, work hard culture, open minded, sweet kids. I guess in contrast to some of the DC super liberal schools with a preference for the community activist and academic elite, here you just might get a dose of capitalism and entrepreneurialism. (GASP!)

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, they have the funding. Yes, the construction is underway. You can drive to campus and see for yourself. They are targeting end of 2019 completion.

Please do not suggest that people drive to the campus to check it out. The neighborhood counts cars going up and down Potomac School Road and the school must pay a fine if the allocation is exceeded. That is why the school has students board buses within a mile of the school, in order to alleviate the number of times the clicker is triggered in the road.

Why would the school choose such an unpleasant neighborhood for its location? Those neighbors do not sound welcoming.

The school was there before the neighborhood.

No, that's not right and you know it!

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Anonymous wrote:Just visited recently. School paper says a new conservative club is forming, that most of the students are liberal and dominate class discussions, and this will be a forum for the minority. So still a liberal school, but not as suffocatingly so as a DC school we visited, where the school paper was full of references to the fact that basically every single person in the school is a liberal Democrat, with various jokes about, e.g., how gay and trans students are much better accepted than Republicans.

This is unacceptable; are trans kids a jokey-joke measuring stick?

Sounds like using a reference to the n word as a bar for low status.

Repugnant! We won’t consider schools that have toxic culture for trans, though our kids are cis.

Anonymous wrote:I honestly would not judge any school by the student paper. Teenagers gonna teenager. They’re prone to exaggeration. And the kids on the newspaper staff don’t necessarily reflect the student body as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, they have the funding. Yes, the construction is underway. You can drive to campus and see for yourself. They are targeting end of 2019 completion.

Please do not suggest that people drive to the campus to check it out. The neighborhood counts cars going up and down Potomac School Road and the school must pay a fine if the allocation is exceeded. That is why the school has students board buses within a mile of the school, in order to alleviate the number of times the clicker is triggered in the road.