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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our oldest graduates from J-R in 5 weeks.

Lots of very good teachers and good classes and a lot of very motivated/ambitious students.

Extracurriculars are varied and are mostly well organized.

Haven't had to deal with school admins too much but mostly got responses.

On the negative side doesn't seem to be much homework and from what we can tell next to no reading so it really isn't very rigorous and our sense and that of most of the parents we've spoken to is that there is widespread grade inflation.

And from what we can tell from our kid close to zero school spirit.

Our kid has had a fair amount of complaints about the shape of the school (things not working, no TP etc) but surprisingly few complaints about behavior issues both inside and outside of school.

There have been some random public safety issues (including two the same week this winter) and the school was good with initial communications and even hosted parent meetings and then just never communicated again so as an example we have no idea what happened with the kid who tried to get a gun thru the metal detector in November.

A lot of the parents we've spoken to who've had kids in college the last couple of years have said the workload the first semester was a shock to their kids but they did say they thought subject matter/critical thinking wise their kids were well prepared.

I think motivated kids can get a great education at J-R and I think less motivated kids can appear to get a great education at J-R while doing a lot of coasting.[/quote]

The lack of reading is hardly limited to J-R, it's a nationwide issue:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/[/quote]

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