Field School: what questions should we be asking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We do have a neighbor who wasn't completely happy last year. She felt that most of the other girls in her class didn't care about school, blew off their homework and that many kids acted up in class. I am not sure if this year has been better or not.

I haven't heard that from either of my kids there. It may be a particular set of girls. I don't see how you could get through without doing homework.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone help de-mystify the comments on the lunch program? from what i understand, you can bring your lunch or pay $3 for lunch daily. If you pay $3 for lunch you get your choice of a salad bar (with variety) or one of two parent sponsored lunches for the day. each family is asked to cater lunch one day of the year--usually that means the parents pay one of the nearby not-fancy restaurants to cater lunch. it sounds like it costs about $750 or so to sponsor a lunch. so lunch is an add-on to tuition, cost $750 or more for your sponsored lunch and then $3 per day for every day your child wants to buy lunch at school. does that sound about accurate Field parents? Field parents, do you like the program?

^^ Accurate description. I hate the program, as does DS.

[Anonymous]

Any program that means I dont have to shop for and pack two school lunches every day sounds good to me.

[Anonymous]

We looked at Field last year and we wondered who the head of school is and why he (I think it is a he) was never at any of the open houses or admissions functions and none of the teachers or administrators ever mentioned him.

[Anonymous]

huh. come to think of it we were also just at an open house and there was no sign of the head, or mention... there were lots of references to the founder, none to the head.

[Anonymous]

that is very weird

[Anonymous]

I have applied to probably half a dozen private schools over the years and don't remember the HOS attending an open house.

I see the Field HOS at all school functions. He's a great promoter of the school. He's been there his entire professional career, starting as a teacher, and replaced the original head so he's only the second HOS. They just built an addition named after the first head which is why you might have heard a lot about her. I never did when we applied a few years ago, I didn't even know who the original HOS was.

Anyway, I like him a lot. My DC transferred to Field after the school year began and he had him into his office to get to know him.