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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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Can someone tell me what are the top private schools in the Washington DC area?
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debated ad nauseam on www.dcurbanmom.com search "big 3"
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or: in my day, while a good school, sidwell wasn't as good as national cathedral/st. albans, but because of recent prominent students (chelsea and the obama girls), it has come up. sidwell was only slightly better than gds, but a very different philosophy (for example, students at gds call the teachers by their first names.
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Sidwell, NCS/St. Alban's, GDS (Maret is often thrown in there too. DC is strange though in that there are a lot of schools that are only for the younger grades. There are some K-8s that are excellent and feed into all of the HS. There are also some K-6 schools and some K-3 schools. Some schools start at 3rd grade instead of K. Cast a wide net. There are many good schools in the area
[ Reply | More ]Former DC resident for eleven years here. Top three: Cathedral, St. Alban's and Sidwell. Fourth would be Maret. Georgetown Day is far lower.
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If you include Northern VA, you'd add The Potomac School and possibly Maderia (all girls) to the list of the top 3/4/5. Potomac has a stronger national reputation and better emissions than some of the "top 4" DC schools. VERY affluent school (in top 5 US zip code by income) and a little more conservative than Sibley
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