Flint Hill 9-12, opinions, experiences?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone share your experience or thoughts on flint hill? DS will be entering 9th next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share your experience or thoughts on flint hill? DS will be entering 9th next year.

Choose another school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share your experience or thoughts on flint hill? DS will be entering 9th next year.

Choose another school.

Any details you would care to share?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share your experience or thoughts on flint hill? DS will be entering 9th next year.

Choose another school.

Any details you would care to share?

NP Look up old threads on DCUM. It's all laid out. Nothing new to say. We moved our DD to Madeira.

[Anonymous]

Everybody is different. Your child will do fine at Flint Hill. There are lots of naysayers out there. If you're looking for a path to an Ivy, perhaps FH isn't the best option. But if you're looking for a well-rounded school, you're probably at one of the right places.

[Anonymous]

My son is a freshman at FHS so we’re only a few weeks in but he loves it.

[Anonymous]

Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

We're a FH family and I've never heard of the founder so idk what glorification the poster is referring to.

FH gets dogged on this site because it's a school who accepts a variety of learners, not just the 95%+ SSAT performers. Our experience is that FH isn't an academic pressure cooker. Kids are free to be high flyers, straight up average, or have supports from the learning center as needed. I don't know all the matriculation data from last year, but I do know one kid got into Harvard and another kid this year scored a 1600 on his SAT, so the school isn't filled with dummies and Ivies must think it can properly prepare students for their hallowed halls regardless what posters on DCUM think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

What? Who was the founder that you're talking about?

Many schools started as a segregation academy. FHS doesn't shy away from this fact and John Thomas (former HoS) talked about how he wished it hadn't started that way.

We're a FH family and I've never heard of the founder so idk what glorification the poster is referring to.

FH gets dogged on this site because it's a school who accepts a variety of learners, not just the 95%+ SSAT performers. Our experience is that FH isn't an academic pressure cooker. Kids are free to be high flyers, straight up average, or have supports from the learning center as needed. I don't know all the matriculation data from last year, but I do know one kid got into Harvard and another kid this year scored a 1600 on his SAT, so the school isn't filled with dummies and Ivies must think it can properly prepare students for their hallowed halls regardless what posters on DCUM think.

Flint Hill "gets dogged on this site" because it pretend to be more than it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.

Off the top of my head, GDS and WIS were not segregation academies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.

That’s right. The schools that were around after prior to the Supreme Court forcing schools to be integrated didn’t even allow Blacks. I don’t think we can name any school regularly mentioned in this forum that doesn’t have a racist history. And quite a few will have a more racist history and are certainly more racist now than Flint Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flint hill started at a segregation academy. Just something to keep in mind. They still strongly glorify their founder.

Most of the schools mentioned in this forum were segregation academy’s.

Private schools were created in response to integration. This is across the board, almost all private schools founded before 1980. So that's not a FH problem, that's a private school issue.

Off the top of my head, GDS and WIS were not segregation academies.

Why do you think this?