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Anonymous
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Maret's college placement is fine; all my neighbors' kids who graduated recently all went on to competitive, top 10 liberal arts schools.
If Harvard/Yale/Princeton is the measure, then I don't know. |
Anonymous
| I found a lot of enthusiastic staff at Norwood. |
Anonymous
| Here we go again... another round of ...."Green Acres is the place to be....." |
Anonymous
| Hey--I must have met all of you GA parents at the tour! I have such mixed feelings about what I saw. I thought that the relationship between teachers-students was genuine, mutually respectful, and just plain...fun. That you don't see at most schools. Yet, I am a bit hesitant about sticking my little guy in a large 1st grade class, even with their prided 'home corners'. Also, I thought that the transitioning between all those bldgs. would be a wee bit much. Oh, my head hurts with decisions to be made. Any other schools with the 'relaxed' Green Acres feel, but w/less transitions???? |
Anonymous
Well, it is fine. Everyone's opinion is not going to be the same, I've read Maret is "the place to be" also. coming back to the point, has anyone been to Stone Ridge's open house? |
Anonymous
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Green Acres left me hot and cold. We looked at it last year and now. I get the feeling that they want you to believe that it is granola, but it seems to be full of complicated ideas.
They DO NOT seem to have a strong sibling policy, which they did not make clear. They also seem to be more interested in 7 year olds in Kindergarten than any school that we looked at. The birthday cut off is June 1, and they even discourage anyone with a May birthday to wait a year. I did not like the large classrooms which has been shown to be hard on kids. I do know one child that left because of bullying, family said that the school did little to help their child. I like their new math program now. The science program is also good. It was a bit strange that last year, they had wonderful things to say about Everyday Math, but they still switched. |
Anonymous
| Does Green Acres have many students who live in the District? I'm interested in the school but concerned b/c my son is an only child (so playdates would be difficult) and the commute seems difficult. Any insight would be helpful. Thank you! |
Anonymous
Yes, they do. I don't know how many. |
Anonymous
| Talking about large groups I think Beauvoir was one of the schools we tour with the largest Pre-K and K groups. 21 children in a class was too much. At least they got 2 teachers per class, but still. |
Anonymous
| GDS too. Big # of kids in preK and K. |
Anonymous
| Don't GDS, Sidwell, Maret, and Beauvoir all a target of 20 in K? |
Anonymous
yes. only a few schools talked about on this board have smaller class sizes. maybe st. pats, norwood, green acres, lowell. |
Anonymous
At Grace Episcopal Day School's open house the lower school head said the target class size for K is 14 children. The max is 16, at which point they have two teachers. One class always has only 14 children, though, due to classroom square footage. The Pre-K class size is 12-14 children with two teachers, based both on square footage and on NAEYC accreditation requirements. |
Anonymous
| Not to hijack this thread, but keep in mind, the class has to be small (15) to be effective. Extra teachers don't count. One teacher for one class of 14-15 students is better than a class of 25 kids in one room with 3 teachers in there. |
Anonymous
10:07. That was kind of my point; thank you for making it better than I could. Grace made it clear they don't like to go to 16 in the one classroom but will do it for a sibling, etc. The other class is never larger than 14. The small class size was very important to me. If I want a class size of 20 or 21 for K, I can send my child to our public school. |