Predictions on your private school and opening next week?

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Anonymous wrote:I am fine with no academics. Life is short.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I sent home a 'snow packet' once--got about three back. Then realized, what the heck am I doing? When the children are in school they work really, really hard. For all I know, right now if they are not out playing they may be helping shovel or shivering in a house with power out or laying about in their pajamas giggling. This is time to spend with your family and ride the ride. Many children who attend independent schools have plenty of enrichment opportunities at home: stocked bookshelves, board games, electronic learning, charades by the fire. All of that helps development too. They really don't need some dusty worksheets from me. All the children are out so teachers will make adjustments when school is back in session and move forward. Enjoy your time with your children!

+1000!

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Anonymous wrote:Yet another year of missed school days and learning. If I could afford it, I would just take this semester's $17K tuition and throw it bill-by-bill into the fireplace (not really, but still), at least that way it would give us the benefit of warmth.

Have your kids read a book. Greatest preparation for the verbal portion of the SAT is to simply read widely and often.

[Anonymous]

Prediction:
Monday closed.
Tuesday late opening.

Snow days with my kids living in the same house with me: too few!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I sent home a 'snow packet' once--got about three back. Then realized, what the heck am I doing? When the children are in school they work really, really hard. For all I know, right now if they are not out playing they may be helping shovel or shivering in a house with power out or laying about in their pajamas giggling. This is time to spend with your family and ride the ride. Many children who attend independent schools have plenty of enrichment opportunities at home: stocked bookshelves, board games, electronic learning, charades by the fire. All of that helps development too. They really don't need some dusty worksheets from me. All the children are out so teachers will make adjustments when school is back in session and move forward. Enjoy your time with your children!

In the lower and middle schools, I agree with you, it really does not matter. When your child is in high school and they regularly miss enough school days over a few years to impact their learning of advanced math, accelerated chemistry, or ap physics, and thus their end-of-year performance on the ap exams, sat subject tests, or the actual sat or act, then you might not be quite so comfortable with it. Every year I hear parents lament about how just a few points more on this or that standardized exam, or a grade up in this or that class, might have made the difference between a top school and their student's safeties. When every little bit counts on a college application, then who are we to say that ten snow days of missed learning time with the private school teacher devoted to your student's chemistry or math or biology instruction might not have made a difference. And online learning and reading a textbook without the benefit of structured lectures and having questions answered as they come up in class, is not the same thing, otherwise we would all have our children enrolled in online learning. Oh well, we can always spend more money for a tutor.

These are likely parents trying rationalize why their little geniuses didn't get into Stanford.

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My kid's MP just ended. We got her report card Friday. I'm not in a rush for her to go back. She's in 5th so this is our last year in the lower school. After this, it gets intense. She's enjoying a different type of learning right now. We did a little informal math to figure out how much flour we'd need if we wanted to give everyone in our building a cupcake. ScienceFriday had a snow lab on Pinterest so we did that.

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