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[quote=Anonymous]I used to teach at Nysmith. There was always a large number of kids who left in third grade because they were admitted to AAP. I would estimate that the guidance counselor filled out referral packets for about 1/2 of the second grade class, especially because I was working there at a time when the economy was shaky. Usually there were vacancies in third grade because of kids leaving for AAP. Those slots were mostly filled either by families new to the area who'd missed the AAP testing timeline or by kids who were not accepted to AAP but had scores very close to the cutoff. It is indeed a lovely school and the curriculum is solid. It's also for-profit and there are very, very few teachers who stay there as long as many public school teachers, because it's a business and there aren't step increases, unless that's been implemented recently. The benefits aren't great, so most of the teachers, and probably 100% of the co-teachers, are secondary earners. This is probably the same case in the public schools around here, though. I only knew a handful of teachers there who had teaching licenses.

Because it's a private school, they can, and do, counsel kids out who can't hack the academics or have behavior issues. However, this becomes a lot trickier when a family has multiple children enrolled; I saw more than a few cases where kids were allowed to stay even though they were really struggling or misbehaving. The threat of close to $100k in tuition money being yanked was not something the administration wanted to mess with.

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