Nysmith academics - request to hear from current or former parents

[Anonymous]

We are thinking of putting our elementary son in Nysmith and wanted to hear from current or former parents about the school.

We noticed that the teachers don't have their profiles on the school website. Is there a lot of turnover (or lack of qualifications)?

Is Nysmith able to deliver on its promise to accelerate learning for students, or is it overhyped?

How are the afterschool clubs?

We would appreciate any insights on offer!

[Anonymous]

Have you searched on this board and others? The current owner is a huge dick. A lot of people are leaving after the end of the school year.

[Anonymous]

We did a tour once about 12 years ago and they were proudly showing us how the third graders were grinding away making Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks. I like a good PowerPoint as much as the next person, but it just seemed like too much of the wrong thing for that age. I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.

[Anonymous]

You are better looking at the Private School board.

I will say that Nysmith gets beat every year in the MATHCOUNTs competition by the Carson team, the public school across the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did a tour once about 12 years ago and they were proudly showing us how the third graders were grinding away making Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks. I like a good PowerPoint as much as the next person, but it just seemed like too much of the wrong thing for that age. I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.

Thank you for sharing this info. My firm could use some of those third graders as summer interns. I just let our recruiting team know about this untapped source of new hires.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did a tour once about 12 years ago and they were proudly showing us how the third graders were grinding away making Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks. I like a good PowerPoint as much as the next person, but it just seemed like too much of the wrong thing for that age. I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.

Thank you for sharing this info. My firm could use some of those third graders as summer interns. I just let our recruiting team know about this untapped source of new hires.

My kids have made fun of my PowerPoint based job for years.

My older son goes to a Top 30 school and is a liberal arts major. Guess what he did at his first paid job in college....mostly spreadsheets and slidemaking!

In their elementary school, kids used the Google equivalent of PowerPoint all the time. As with the grownup version, using slides rather than a text document implies that more work has been done and that it is elegantly summarized. So it covers over lack of intellectual depth very nicely. For little kids, I think slides help them visualize information flow better than crafting prose. It's easy for the teacher to create a project template and let the kids populate it with their own work. And it teaches the important white collar life skill of choosing visual/graphical elements to illustrate points.

Theoretically school is training for work. It doesn't seem crazy to me to see those connections in early elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are better looking at the Private School board.

I will say that Nysmith gets beat every year in the MATHCOUNTs competition by the Carson team, the public school across the street.

Including this year, woot!

[Anonymous]

Gross. Wouldn't send my child to that antisemitic school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We did a tour once about 12 years ago and they were proudly showing us how the third graders were grinding away making Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks. I like a good PowerPoint as much as the next person, but it just seemed like too much of the wrong thing for that age. I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.

12 years ago? Who cares? Besides my fcps third grades is also making power point slides decks and using canva for school.

[Anonymous]

Save your money. No school is going to accelerate learning. That starts at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did a tour once about 12 years ago and they were proudly showing us how the third graders were grinding away making Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks. I like a good PowerPoint as much as the next person, but it just seemed like too much of the wrong thing for that age. I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.

12 years ago? Who cares? Besides my fcps third grades is also making power point slides decks and using canva for school.

Right, so why pay for it?

[Anonymous]

You might get more advice on the private school forum. Ask the head honcho of DCUM to move it there.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/show/31.page

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gross. Wouldn't send my child to that antisemitic school.

+1 Look elsewhere OP!

[Anonymous]

It’s where people send their kids who don’t get into AAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We did a tour once about 12 years ago and they were proudly showing us how the third graders were grinding away making Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint decks. I like a good PowerPoint as much as the next person, but it just seemed like too much of the wrong thing for that age. I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences.

12 years ago? Who cares? Besides my fcps third grades is also making power point slides decks and using canva for school.

Who cares what your “third grades [sic]” is doing? Maybe you need a class in basic manners.