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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As somebody who's posted here a bunch of times about switching my kid from Fieldston to a top public: take the public, a good public school is going to be superior to a 2T private both academically and socially. The main reason to prefer private would be if, as other people have mentioned, your child has special issues or you need a lot of extra hand-holding in some way, though even there in a lot of cases the public may be more willing to help.

Outside enrichment is a great idea, but I would encourage you to look beyond RSM/Kumon or whatever and not limit yourself to academic enrichment. A rigorous Suzuki violin school - and kindergarten is a perfect age to start - will do far more to develop your child's brain than extra math, not just for the music theory but also because the process and the struggle of mastering an instrument helps develop some  amazing skills for later in life.[/quote]

Thanks!  What led you to leave Fieldston?

We are interested in School For Strings for Suzuki music, but it seems so intense! As a working parent it seems like a very big commitment. [/quote]

That does look intense; we were at a school in the suburbs where it was one individual + one group lesson a week, I think that's more the norm you would find at most Suzuki schools. They did ask for parent involvement, and spouse - who was interested in learning violin anyway - kept up with it for a few months, but eventually fell behind kid after a year or so and nobody made that big a deal out of it.

We left Fieldston over a combination of weak academics - the kids were not particularly smart nor engaged - and bullying.[/quote]

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