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[quote=Anonymous]OP, a child's 100% is not the same as an adult's.  Nor should it be.  My DD is doing so much better at Holton than she was at public school, it's amazing.  And she wasn't doing badly at public school, and it was an AAP center school.  She had a lot more homework from public school, but that is a false measure of anything.  She has not that much homework from Holton but has a total love of learning that she is getting from there, so she often spends evenings playing math games on the computer or reading whatever totally cool new book the librarian picked personally for her.  You simply do not get that much service from a public school.  You should see the art they do -- wow, absolutely blows anything from public school lower grades away.  The concerts (everyone has to play an instrument) are thoroughly professional productions and the students are quite great.  The head of the lower school, Patrick Bane, is so fabulous and smart about LS education.  If you want to measure your child's education by hours spent in tedious or rigid tasks, you won't be happy at Holton.  If you want your child to be engaged socially, academically, and artistically (the sports don't really start until later -- that is my DD's one complaint - we have to get that outside school for now), I am convinced that young women cannot do better (I haven't looked at NCS, but have looked at many public and private schools).[/quote]

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