Beauvoir v. NPS—please compare the communities

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone make a hypothetical comparison between the 4th through 6th experience at NCS and NPS?

I’m sure NCS is more rigorous. Also, at NCS the dynamic will be different because 4th-6th are the younger grades. NPS holds on to childhood and your kid will be the oldest at the school in 4th-6th.

That extension of childhood is really the best thing about NPS. It really does matter.

They claim to extend childhood and their kids stay young longer, but every year there is some god awful issue with the older grades. The year dd was there the 4th grade boys were ranking the 10 year old girls from most hot to least hot. This year there was just a huge blow up a couple of weeks ago bc a girl was texting some pretty horrific racial slurs to the whole class. It happens yearly. Does it happen everywhere? Maybe. But the "we hold onto childhood longer" is total crap.

Nonsense

+1. 4th grade boys noticing girls! Oh, the horror.

That's not the issue. NP who was interested in nps for DD but not so sure. The issue is the school didn't do anything about it. Based on the bullying post and this one it seems the school doesn't address bad behavior? That doesn't seem right

NP and totally unrelated to this discussion- but come on. Do you not have or are you ever around boys this age? If only as pp described that’s pretty standard and pretty innocuous behavior

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone make a hypothetical comparison between the 4th through 6th experience at NCS and NPS?

I’m sure NCS is more rigorous. Also, at NCS the dynamic will be different because 4th-6th are the younger grades. NPS holds on to childhood and your kid will be the oldest at the school in 4th-6th.

That extension of childhood is really the best thing about NPS. It really does matter.

They claim to extend childhood and their kids stay young longer, but every year there is some god awful issue with the older grades. The year dd was there the 4th grade boys were ranking the 10 year old girls from most hot to least hot. This year there was just a huge blow up a couple of weeks ago bc a girl was texting some pretty horrific racial slurs to the whole class. It happens yearly. Does it happen everywhere? Maybe. But the "we hold onto childhood longer" is total crap.

While ones first reaction is to cringe when a god awful thing happens, issues ARE part of childhood. It's how they are dealt with that matters - guessing NPS treats these issues age appropriately. I think you may be missing the point of the decade of childhood. It's not bubble wrapping toddlers as they come into nursery and not allowing them to grow, it's nursery through tweens and all the issues children face and bring up.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone make a hypothetical comparison between the 4th through 6th experience at NCS and NPS?

I’m sure NCS is more rigorous. Also, at NCS the dynamic will be different because 4th-6th are the younger grades. NPS holds on to childhood and your kid will be the oldest at the school in 4th-6th.

That extension of childhood is really the best thing about NPS. It really does matter.

They claim to extend childhood and their kids stay young longer, but every year there is some god awful issue with the older grades. The year dd was there the 4th grade boys were ranking the 10 year old girls from most hot to least hot. This year there was just a huge blow up a couple of weeks ago bc a girl was texting some pretty horrific racial slurs to the whole class. It happens yearly. Does it happen everywhere? Maybe. But the "we hold onto childhood longer" is total crap.

Nonsense

+1. 4th grade boys noticing girls! Oh, the horror.

That's not the issue. NP who was interested in nps for DD but not so sure. The issue is the school didn't do anything about it. Based on the bullying post and this one it seems the school doesn't address bad behavior? That doesn't seem right

NP and totally unrelated to this discussion- but come on. Do you not have or are you ever around boys this age? If only as pp described that’s pretty standard and pretty innocuous behavior

So is it boys will be boys or we keep them young for longer? Because you can't have it both ways. Either you agree that keeping them young is crap and their 10 year olds are making hot or not lists and 6th graders are using racial slurs, or it's just boys being boys. You can't have it both ways

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone make a hypothetical comparison between the 4th through 6th experience at NCS and NPS?

I’m sure NCS is more rigorous. Also, at NCS the dynamic will be different because 4th-6th are the younger grades. NPS holds on to childhood and your kid will be the oldest at the school in 4th-6th.

That extension of childhood is really the best thing about NPS. It really does matter.

They claim to extend childhood and their kids stay young longer, but every year there is some god awful issue with the older grades. The year dd was there the 4th grade boys were ranking the 10 year old girls from most hot to least hot. This year there was just a huge blow up a couple of weeks ago bc a girl was texting some pretty horrific racial slurs to the whole class. It happens yearly. Does it happen everywhere? Maybe. But the "we hold onto childhood longer" is total crap.

Nonsense

+1. 4th grade boys noticing girls! Oh, the horror.

That's not the issue. NP who was interested in nps for DD but not so sure. The issue is the school didn't do anything about it. Based on the bullying post and this one it seems the school doesn't address bad behavior? That doesn't seem right

NP and totally unrelated to this discussion- but come on. Do you not have or are you ever around boys this age? If only as pp described that’s pretty standard and pretty innocuous behavior

So is it boys will be boys or we keep them young for longer? Because you can't have it both ways. Either you agree that keeping them young is crap and their 10 year olds are making hot or not lists and 6th graders are using racial slurs, or it's just boys being boys. You can't have it both ways

I’m saying that 10 YO boys making hot lists is a part of childhood and is completely age appropriate. The 6th grade thing is more problematic and wrong, obviously, but I’m not convinced that actually happened

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone make a hypothetical comparison between the 4th through 6th experience at NCS and NPS?

I’m sure NCS is more rigorous. Also, at NCS the dynamic will be different because 4th-6th are the younger grades. NPS holds on to childhood and your kid will be the oldest at the school in 4th-6th.

That extension of childhood is really the best thing about NPS. It really does matter.

They claim to extend childhood and their kids stay young longer, but every year there is some god awful issue with the older grades. The year dd was there the 4th grade boys were ranking the 10 year old girls from most hot to least hot. This year there was just a huge blow up a couple of weeks ago bc a girl was texting some pretty horrific racial slurs to the whole class. It happens yearly. Does it happen everywhere? Maybe. But the "we hold onto childhood longer" is total crap.

Nonsense

+1. 4th grade boys noticing girls! Oh, the horror.

That's not the issue. NP who was interested in nps for DD but not so sure. The issue is the school didn't do anything about it. Based on the bullying post and this one it seems the school doesn't address bad behavior? That doesn't seem right

NP and totally unrelated to this discussion- but come on. Do you not have or are you ever around boys this age? If only as pp described that’s pretty standard and pretty innocuous behavior

So is it boys will be boys or we keep them young for longer? Because you can't have it both ways. Either you agree that keeping them young is crap and their 10 year olds are making hot or not lists and 6th graders are using racial slurs, or it's just boys being boys. You can't have it both ways

I’m saying that 10 YO boys making hot lists is a part of childhood and is completely age appropriate. The 6th grade thing is more problematic and wrong, obviously, but I’m not convinced that actually happened

Are you an nps parent? The PP must be telling some kind of truth becausw yes it might be age appropriate but it's not ok behavior that needs to be addressed. But if parents and admin are treating it as a suck it up kind of thing that's not cool

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Former NPS parent here.

Bad thing about the school and why we only lasted a few years. Bullying was bad. The school's approach was clearly to get the victim to shut up about it instead of dealing with the bully. I spoke to MANY parents at the time and what I learned is that bullying is not usually tolerated, however, if you have a bully whose parents are the trifecta big donors/board members/church members then your child better learn to love the bullying. My child was actually told by a teacher, "You don't have to tell a teacher every time he does something to you."

Good thing about it. When my younger one was in the lower school, I felt that there were teachers who truly cared about my child and wanted what was best for him. I think the lower school is great that way. Not so much with the upper school. I felt 100% confident in the lower school that my son was getting a great education and was loved and taken care of.

That sounds like one of the 4th grade teachers. I don't know why she is still a teacher there despite numerous complaints about her.

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Anonymous wrote:Can anyone make a hypothetical comparison between the 4th through 6th experience at NCS and NPS?

I’m sure NCS is more rigorous. Also, at NCS the dynamic will be different because 4th-6th are the younger grades. NPS holds on to childhood and your kid will be the oldest at the school in 4th-6th.

That extension of childhood is really the best thing about NPS. It really does matter.

They claim to extend childhood and their kids stay young longer, but every year there is some god awful issue with the older grades. The year dd was there the 4th grade boys were ranking the 10 year old girls from most hot to least hot. This year there was just a huge blow up a couple of weeks ago bc a girl was texting some pretty horrific racial slurs to the whole class. It happens yearly. Does it happen everywhere? Maybe. But the "we hold onto childhood longer" is total crap.

Nonsense

+1. 4th grade boys noticing girls! Oh, the horror.

That's not the issue. NP who was interested in nps for DD but not so sure. The issue is the school didn't do anything about it. Based on the bullying post and this one it seems the school doesn't address bad behavior? That doesn't seem right

NP and totally unrelated to this discussion- but come on. Do you not have or are you ever around boys this age? If only as pp described that’s pretty standard and pretty innocuous behavior

So is it boys will be boys or we keep them young for longer? Because you can't have it both ways. Either you agree that keeping them young is crap and their 10 year olds are making hot or not lists and 6th graders are using racial slurs, or it's just boys being boys. You can't have it both ways

I’m saying that 10 YO boys making hot lists is a part of childhood and is completely age appropriate. The 6th grade thing is more problematic and wrong, obviously, but I’m not convinced that actually happened

Are you an nps parent? The PP must be telling some kind of truth becausw yes it might be age appropriate but it's not ok behavior that needs to be addressed. But if parents and admin are treating it as a suck it up kind of thing that's not cool

It's definitely behavior that needs to be addressed. And as a parent I actually think that elementary school can be a blessing in disguise for thoughtfully addressing and learning from mistakes (aka "teachable moments"). They should not be excused, and I have no reason to think NPS would do anything except address them seriously and in line with its approach to childhood. Better to learn from it now than in middle or god forbid high school.

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Some of you really believe 99% of the stuff posted on here. Once the admin posted/said people post as a current parent, prospective parent and different grade parents, I do my research at the end of the day and take these post with a grain of salt.

[Anonymous]

Do many kids leave NPS in 4th vs going through 6th? If so, where do they typically go? How much does the NPS class size shrink from 3rd to 4th and beyond.. and why do people leave? Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Do many kids leave NPS in 4th vs going through 6th? If so, where do they typically go? How much does the NPS class size shrink from 3rd to 4th and beyond.. and why do people leave? Thanks!

I would say a handful do leave in 3rd for Holton and 4th for NCS/STA. However most stay until 6th. I never applied about early for my 3 kids. I have one at Holton, one at STA and one still at the school. The older kids all graduated from NPS.

[Anonymous]

Former Beauvoir parent here.

My DC missed one day of school in his time there.

He sobbed when he couldn't go to Beau... V.... oir.... to- DaY.....

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The “feeder pattern” between LFS and BVR has been discussed here before. Does NPS attract an outsized amount of kids from any particular preschool? Metropolitan?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do many kids leave NPS in 4th vs going through 6th? If so, where do they typically go? How much does the NPS class size shrink from 3rd to 4th and beyond.. and why do people leave? Thanks!

I would say a handful do leave in 3rd for Holton and 4th for NCS/STA. However most stay until 6th. I never applied about early for my 3 kids. I have one at Holton, one at STA and one still at the school. The older kids all graduated from NPS.

Thank you! Was it hard for your kids to matriculate academically or socially to the new school in 7th? Worried in particular about social given 7th grade can be a tough year even in the best circumstances. I imagine going to a school where many kids have known each other for years could be tough.

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If you plan to do a strong suburban public afterward, which school would offer an easier transition? Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:Do many kids leave NPS in 4th vs going through 6th? If so, where do they typically go? How much does the NPS class size shrink from 3rd to 4th and beyond.. and why do people leave? Thanks!

I would say a handful do leave in 3rd for Holton and 4th for NCS/STA. However most stay until 6th. I never applied about early for my 3 kids. I have one at Holton, one at STA and one still at the school. The older kids all graduated from NPS.

Thank you! Was it hard for your kids to matriculate academically or socially to the new school in 7th? Worried in particular about social given 7th grade can be a tough year even in the best circumstances. I imagine going to a school where many kids have known each other for years could be tough.

Not at all. While not a big entry year, it’s still an entry year. DD is in 9th and son in 10th. I just felt my kids needed that nurturing environment a little while longer. In 3rd, my DD wasn’t as good as a reader for her grade. So I wanted to make sure, we understood her needs and getting her where she needed to be before transitioning. My son was still socially awkward and immature for a 9 year old. 7th was the perfect year for them both.