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[quote=Anonymous]Our children are several years into the school.  It has been an excellent experience academically and socially for the kids.   You will be very hard pressed to find a **lower** school with a better-executed curriculum.  (ie, it's not appropriate or fair to pine for GDS's high school offerings at this point, IMO).

Randy's spiel about supporting the whole child in all areas is not bullshit.  I was a skeptic going in but not after a few years -- the school's philosophy is carried out top to bottom, and it has had measurable impact on our DCs, the more tentative one in particular.

Our children are white, European-Americans born in the United States.  I'm not going to apologize for this immutable trait, PPs.  But, in their respective classes, each has several students of color (note:  ALL the colors.  Sometimes on DCUM, certain anonymous people really mean just AA).  There are also lots of kids at Sheridan from all over the world who speak multiple languages and probably appear to have white skin.  I personally treasure these kids from Estonia and Portugal as much as I do the kids who are ethnic Chinese, but of course YMMV.

We have, so far, especially valued the music programs and the language arts instruction.  Also, the way that "social studies" is taught.  To be candid, I wish the math instruction in the lower grades was something other than straight-up Everyday Math.  This really has its drawbacks and I believe that Sheridan and several other lower schools in DC-Md. are revisiting their reliance on this curriculum for K-4.[/quote]

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