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Norwood: What do you love? Not Love?
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Anonymous
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that is funny pp, I do often hear from Norwood parents say that it is more important to be well rounded. I suspect that many of these parents earn a living by being the personality guy, and that's fine, and most of those personality people are VERY smart too.
HOWEVER, I want my kids to be well educated on an academic level too, that is what I am paying the school to do. BTW, I believe that the school has fine academics. |
Anonymous
| I am a Norwood parent, who I concede may on appearances look like the type to get by on "personality" as you put it. But if you get to know me, you will find that I attended a top college and graduate program, was very successful in my field, and yes played sports and was a member of a sorority (the horror!) in college. I consider myself an intellectual in many respects, but I do not engage in such conversation on the playground (usually). I also like to dress well, not obvious labels or anything, but nicely. My child is very athletic and also happens to be very smart. I find these combinations to be the norm at Norwood. Sometimes you have to dig a bit deeper and not be so quick to categorize people. We are, more often than not, pretty complex beings. And for what it is worth, I do value well-roundedness, in myself and others. |
Anonymous
In one of my daughter's class it was true that the athletic kids also were the smart ones, but in my son's there was a divide -- and the bullying was greater. Point is that classes all vary, there is no "norm." |
Anonymous
| PP you post in the past tense. Do you currently have children at Norwood or are you talking from past experience? |
Anonymous
| both. Why do you ask? |
Anonymous
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OP, I hope that we are not confusing you. I don't think that the anti-intellectual comments are trying to imply that the school is anti-academic.
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Anonymous
| This is a good way to think of it: school offers pretty good academics (top down) but the consumers (parents, students) are more mixed in how seriously they take the academics versus sports/social. As I compare my child's experience at Norwood vs. some downtown schools, this adds up to a difference in the culture (PPs would say "anti-intellectual), but I'd still say the school tries to remain committed to academics. |
Anonymous
| PP, out of curiosity, are you comparing your child's experience at Norwood to experience in the same grades elsewhere or to experience in high school? I can see how those might be quite different. |
Anonymous
| Experience at Norwood with same grades for different child at another school. Not high school. |
Anonymous
Done: starting next year, morning chapel will not include the Lord's Prayer. |
Anonymous
Has this been announced? When was this decision made? |
Anonymous
| That is so excellent. Perhaps they can go that one last step and not call it "chapel"......? But I am pleased nonetheless. The short list of dislikes is getting even shorter. |
Anonymous
| I find it troubling. |
Anonymous
Announced to all parents in a lengthy emailed letter today. |
Anonymous
From whom? I haven't seen it. |