Did anyone find primary day too "academic" or structured?

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Anonymous wrote:Primary Day has gone downhill. The head of school is so self serving that he has destroyed the entire sweetness of the school by pushing it to be his vision instead of respecting what makes the school special. Glad he is leaving.

Is he really leaving? We met him last year and, quite honestly, couldn't stand him. But, I hadn't heard that he was leaving. We thought about applying this year so that would be good news.

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Anonymous wrote:Both my children graduated from Primary Day. It is a fabulous school with an incredible head of school, Scott Lawrence. It is academic and the staff is first rate, with so many wonderful traditions.

Sounds like you had children that are happy and graduated when Mary Lisa Geppert was head, who was incredible but pushed out by a few bitter parents who were being egged on by a few bitter faculty and staff members. Everyone knows who they are and that they resisted change. If you had a child there now (and I had one with the former head and one with the new) you would know that people are unhappy. Except of course the people who wanted the old head to leave. The school seems miserable now. The kids look unhappy and the teachers look unhappy. They should encourage the bullies who got rid of the old head to move on. You wouldn't even believe the things that I hear directly from the source. It's really sad to think that a few teachers and staff members basically make all the decisions for the school and are proud of how easily they can manipulate the new head.

These kind of dynamics are common at weak schools

This is laughable. MLG was not removed due to a few bitter parents. In fact, she is so full of herself that it sounds like she still trolls this thread making herself sound like a victim. MLG, you need to stop posting, you are embarrassing yourself. Move on.