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[quote=Anonymous]Since most of this has been addressed, I'll talk about the uniforms and discipline as I have a bit of experience with both. We've been there for four years. I love the uniforms and personally I hope they never drop it. Also Shepherd remains like a third lower SES anyway, and I know it's helpful for those families. But if you really want to choose a school based on uniform requirements, Shepherd may not be the right fit for you anyway. I can tell you with confidence there's no move to drop uniforms from the parent community.

On the discipline front, I just don't agree that it's not "progressive." Throughout our progression in the grades, our kids have always gotten a sheet each day that lets parents know where their kid was in terms of making choices throughout the day. I think that's the norm in a lot of public schools. And I appreciate it. When it comes to actual discipline, I think my little ones have gotten the equivalent of a time-out, or sitting in a chair a few minutes after a TON of warnings. (Like 10-12 warnings, not 3 or 5). Or she might be walked from here to there, holding the teacher's hand when she, for example, refuses to walk some place, which she does a fair bit. The one time I thought she had been disciplined too hard, I talked with teacher one-on-one and realized my understanding of the situation/discipline had been incredibly lost in translation.

As for my older one, and I'll just say I parent a kid who occasionally makes seriously poor choices at school DESPITE OUR BEST EFFORTS. And I generally feel like my child has been appropriately disciplined, with a call and a letter to me, a letter written by both the school and sometimes by my child apologizing to other children (assuming there was another kid negatively affected) with complete and total involvement of the school social worker. The consequences have so far been totally appropriate for the injury, including (but not limited to) a fair few lectures and conversations with affected kids, an essay on better/more appropriate behavior and/or lost fun time. I'm not saying the school is perfect by any means. (And my kids aren't perfect either.) But as an involved parent there, uniforms and discipline are the least of my concerns. [/quote]

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