How is Stone Ridge doing these days?

[Anonymous]

I here their girls swim team is awesome.

[Anonymous]

NP also interested in the school for my DD.

It looks like right now there's only one parent of a current SR student who has posted. I've never heard of reverse teaching, either generally or at Stone Ridge in particular, and will look into it Are there any other parents out there who can comment on current experiences, either similar to the PP or with different views of the current strengths and weaknesses at the school? I'm especially interested in lower school.

[Anonymous]

I don't have a child at SR, but I know someone with three girls there (including LS), and she raves about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I could be wrong here but it sounds like the PP daughter may not be cut out for the school. It is known to be academically rigorous; if your child has 7 hours of homework a night I think there is a bigger disconnect than teaching method.

Dd is doing quite well at sr but this new teaching method is just that... New. She'll adjust

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I here their girls swim team is awesome.

Their boys swim team is undefeated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I here their girls swim team is awesome.

Their boys swim team is undefeated.

But sadly our boys swim team has no gold medalists.

[Anonymous]

Well, the local public offers same rigorious curriculum without the religion added

[Anonymous]

Anonymous



Well, the local public offers same rigorious curriculum without the religion added


I can assure you it does not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I here their girls swim team is awesome.

Their boys swim team is undefeated.

But sadly our boys swim team has no gold medalists.

One would think that a school like SR has more to offer prospective and current students. I do hope parents are getting more than "xx xx" attended/attends this school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, the local public offers same rigorious curriculum without the religion added

Coming from public after 5 years (Wootton cluster, Potomac) looking at many privates and now at one, I can say you are incorrect.

Did you go to Stone Ridge and leave for public? Um, no.

[Anonymous]

Current SR mom of twins with one at SR one at another school. The difference between the 2 schools is huge. SR has great teachers that cover the material in depth. The writing curriculum is incredible; I would even say college level starting as far back as the middle school. The girls are taught to think and analyze rather than take a multiple choice test. I wish I could send both my DC to SR.

As to the concerns about 5th grade being part of the middle school, the fifth graders are in a bubble with the majority of their classes on the 6th floor and the middle school advisory program is stellar.

[Anonymous]

What is reverse teaching--are there studies to back up why they are using this? Just curious. We would consider SR for hs so we are not a current family but a prospective one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Flipped classroom? What are they using for the home teaching pieces?

OP, for what it is worth, my DD is the same age as yours and also TAG identified. She shadowed at SR last year and really liked the girls and the teachers but she said the academics in the lower school seemed no different than what she was working on in her previous school where she was pretty bored and coasting. That's one day though, but since no one seems to be giving you much else I thought I'd offer it.

I'm the poster that said it's "eh". My DD comes home with hw to do however the lesson has not been taught in class. So, she takes the notes on logarithms in her notebook from the book, and then does the assigned hw. This is okay to an extent. But in class the teacher only goes over homework, and does not necessarily "explain" and teach. I have met with the math teacher and she really only sits at her desk during class. My DD was angry earlier in the year but now she uses Khan Academy and other Youtube videos to teach her the material for math. It is this way in her Spanish, and History classes.

How do they flip the classroom for history and Spanish? I've never understood how that would work in anything other than math/science where you are working on problem sets.

[Anonymous]

to the pp. dd is instructed to read the textbook and take notes, the next day the teacher quizzes and the further explains material.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:to the pp. dd is instructed to read the textbook and take notes, the next day the teacher quizzes and the further explains material.

Okay, thanks for the explanation. That sounds somewhat similar to a "normal" history class, with a lot more quizzes taking the place of some class discussion/activities, unless they're not really having class discussions at all the next day?