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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's Seaton, stay where you are!

Sincerely, 
ITS parent.[/quote]

It's not Seaton, but can you explain why you feel this way? Do you have specific criticisms of ITS?[/quote]

Well, I like the new ITS head of school better than I liked the one we had before.  And this school year is going a lot better.  But I would say that Seaton's math curriculum and teaching is superior to ITS-- and it shows in their tests scores, especially their growth scores.  Not all of our teachers have been that great at ITS-- all have been adequate but many are inexperienced and some are just meh.  Some are truly great though.  The adult-child ratio is really high and I like that, but they're certainly dropping a lot of their budget on staff rather than other things.  Science doesn't get much attention.  It lacks economic diversity (though the at-risk preference may improve that) and the parents can be annoyingly "woke".  The test scores aren't any better than demographics would indicate-- it's not like high income kids on grade level is some huge pedagogical breakthrough, right?  And it gets kind of awkward in the upper grades.  People who can afford private school and people whose children will get into an application high school stick around, the others have to make other plans.  And even for me whose kid tests really well, it's stressful not to have a real plan for high school.

Seaton's garden is superior, ITS is a sad desiccated mess.  And walking to school is sooooo nice.  Traffic at ITS has been a cluster this year, lots of honking and yelling.[/quote]

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