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[quote=Anonymous]My DC did not go there but she shadowed twice there at 4 and 5. So did I - shadowing with her twice and interviewed with the school twice. Here is everything in a nutshell:

1. I am seminary graduate, born again Christian and strongly believe in teaching my DC Christian beliefs and values and the Bible.
2. I am an Asian, strongly believe in academic rigors is necessary when looking for a school.
3. Ambleside is strong academically. but: it's extremely legalistic, rigid, restrictive, not conducive to promoting children's creativity, and critical thinking skills. I have much evidence to illustrate this point. It is against children's natural emotional, mental and physical development process. 
4. My pastors' children and some of my church friends' children have been there for years. As they rave about the school, especially its art program and classical education curriculum, I see the kids show serious emotional and behavioral issues. This is the parents' blind spot. One 7-year-old boy of the pastor's family hit a two-year-old toddler in front of two day-care workers in our church nursery. The little boy cried hard, the daycare workers asked the 7-year-old to apologize. The older kid who had been educated in Ambleside since 4 refused. They called his mother - the pastor's wife. The mother seriously asked him about what happened. He was defiant. Then the mother took him to the adjacent bathroom, used her shoes to spank him. I witnessed all of this  - to my shock. All of the kids (about 10 or so) in my church who had been with Ambleside for years behaved remarkably poorly. I  saw them behaved perfectly in the extremely restrictive environment in school during my shadow day visit. One child sang off tune during the music class, he was publicly shamed, called out, reprimanded, brought to a corner in the church room to sit there watching the whole class for the rest of the class time while he cried shamefully non-stop. Another child skipped the last stair when going downstairs. He was immediately reprimanded, asked to go back from the very top and step by step to come downstairs while the whole class watched and waited. 
5. I would recommend not to send your kids there.
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