Nothing wrong with these threads if they are of interest to folks but I wouldn’t consider them about Prep School Admissions. Plus there are plenty of threads in the Cafe that probably are better suited to the Admissions area because they are Prep School related and would flush it out more. Just seems a little random to me.
It used to be that the Café subtopic was for essentially “non-substantive” discussions like “Prep Schools in one word” or “March 10 freak out”. It seems that more recently people have posted more substantive discussions in the Café, or had them moved there by our esteemed moderator. I wish we could go back to using the Café as it previously was used, because then I could just continue to ignore it. I see nothing wrong with having one substantive forum that covers both admissions to BS and also life at BS in one place. I do, however, really like having a separate subtopic for parents, and would be really sad if that got merged into all the rest.
If the OP is relatively new and/or does not refer to DS or DD, I have no way of knowing if the poster is a parent or a child, and will assume that s/he posted it in the correct place. Some of the students have been known to start rather weighty discussions.
The vast majority of threads that I move are from prep school admissions into the parent’s forum. The parent’s forum was set up to be mainly (although not exclusively) a place where the question is asked by a parent, directed to other parents, with the expectation that the answers would come from mostly parents. The Prep School Admissions forum is primarily for students asking the questions or for posts that are directed to or will be of interest to students. Of course, students are free to post on the parent’s forum, and vice versa. The cafe is the prep school version of High School Life, where students have their stream of consciousness conversations like “Never Have I Ever.” Prep School Chances is self-explanatory. There is no separate stream of consciousness forum for parents, a la the Parent’s Cafe.
If anyone thinks a thread is in the incorrect forum, PM me or flag it.
