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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just ask people in the neighborhood OP. You’ll get better results than here.[/quote]

No, the neighborhood is full of boosters. I worry people who have had bad experiences won't say a word because they are afraid of backlash. [/quote]

Maybe it’s because most of the neighbors who send their kids to EH are pretty content with it? I know I am. The only kids I know of that left before 8th had very specific reasons. [/quote]

No. NP here with a kid at Maury. I don’t talk middle school with other kids’ parents because the pro-EH narrative is so rabid and deciding EH isn’t for your kid is coded as racist/classist/being a bad neighbor. Our decision that it’s not right for our kid is being kept under wraps. Ridiculous it comes to this.[/quote]

This is so crazy to me. why would people sacrifice their child's education just because the parent (not the child!) is experiencing peer pressure?[/quote]

No one sacrifices in this way. Most people know that just because someone calls them racist/classist/being a bad neighbor doesn't mean that it's true.[/quote]

PP here who said we kept the decision under wraps. Agree with this. But my point was that rather than be called or seen as something negative by a classmate’s parents, we just distance ourselves, and as this thread (and experience) shows, we’re not alone. Instead of it being an information sharing and open process— which discussion of spreadsheet mom from a few years ago indicates it used to be—it’s now about shame and judgment, which is not doing anyone a service, including EH. [/quote]

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