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Insecurity
Insincerity Ignorance Arrogance Entitlement |
Anonymous
Are those the new Life Rules? |
Anonymous
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Judgmental
Insecure Ignorant Envious |
Anonymous
| It's the noun versus adjective war. You go girls. |
Anonymous
| I am not sure that it is an inability to handle criticism or see a need for improvement. I think that some people see a need for more basics, whereas others think that there is plenty of that already, that their children learned the basics perfectly well as is, and believe that more review of that same material would make the school materially worse. These might be legitimate differences based on what works or worked for a particular child and not something which has a right one-size-fits-all answer. Maybe more differentiation is the key. |
Anonymous
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I am the Beauvoir-iconoclast. I will tell you that my child has a really high IQ and the issue was not difficulty with the material or something. It was that it wasn't taught. Good for you that you got reading groups. My child did not after 1st grade. Then it was all independent reading, when frankly none of them was fluent enough to leave alone. I am very aware they studied Jolly Phonics, but some paid more attention to it than others. I think Beauvoir thought we'd all be so impressed our children could sound out words we wouldn't question exactly how far along they got. But having had a mother who was a second grade teacher, I started to realize a lot of the core knowledge for an elementary school student was not being taught.
As for math facts, I am quite sure at least one of the third grade teachers did teach math facts. Mine did not. So I may be an outlier. But I can tell you that what I am describing was valid for me. |
Anonymous
For what it's worth, that's not at all the impression I get of Beauvoir parents from DCUM. It's pretty rare on DCUM to find anyone with any constructive criticism of Beauvoir -- usually it's just obnoxious remarks about Eric Toth or the clothing/car/pearl choices of Beauvoir moms. This thread is probably the most constructive Beauvoir discussion I've ever seen on DCUM -- the "Beavoir iconoclast" makes her points with a minimum of insults, and others agree/disagree with facts and their personal experiences, but relatively few counter-insults. But even this thread devolves into idiocy and name-calling on page 4. Given all the unsolicited elbows they take on DCUM, I've always been pretty favorably impressed that Beauvoir parents don't respond in kind. By the way, I have no connection to Beauvoir. I know one person whose children graduated from there a couple years ago, and I dealt with it in the application process a while back, but that's it. |
Anonymous
To answer op, yes it is worth applying if you like the school. You don't have to go to St. Alban's - some students do go to other great schools in the area. My child is at Beauvoir and just loves the school and is so happy there, as are we. Even if we don't end up at St. Alban's we still love the school and think it is worth it and would do it again. Good luck wherever you decide to go! |
Anonymous
You clearly have not searched the archives on this one. |
Anonymous
You need to show me some examples. I've been reading DCUM for a while now. |
Anonymous
If you had been reading DCUM for a while now you would not need me to point out examples to you. You can do the searching yourself. |
Anonymous
I have lost the point of this whole discussion. I think the point that we all can agree on is that there is a LOT of criticism of Beauvoir and that USUALLY it is just filled with hate and cheap shots, but that THIS thread seemed to rise above that (present company excepted...) |