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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pp can you expand about what you mean in terms of burgundy farm?[/quote]

Hi.  What I meant regarding Burgundy is that the students are very much similar to each other in terms of life experience, backgrounds, views, etc. ... Which is not at all surprising as the school attracts fairly like-minded (and in my opinion nice) people.  BUT, if your child is different, quirky, odd, or has social deficits, it is difficult for a child to find a niche at such a small place.  Or a niche inhabited by a friend or two anyway.  The teachers and staff work very hard to teach kindness, tolerance, and so forth, but there is a big difference between being accepted and having actual friends.  Just as there is a difference between being viewed as a classmate versus a friend.  So any school that has such small numbers of kids per grade can be so wonderful for most children yet so limiting for that other smaller group of kids.  It is nothing against the school.  Burgundy has one or two quirky kids per grade thus seemingly having a good cohort of such kids .... But although they know each other across grades, most friendships are within grade and the several quirky kids don't necessarily look to each other as friend material.  Two kids with social deficits thrown together doesn't work out too well ...

As another poster put it, we left the school to find our child a larger cohort rather than to get away from Burgundy for other reasons.  The larger school worked so much better from a social standpoint.  I'm not suggesting that our experience would be universal, but it turned out dead opposite from what we originally had envisioned so just wanted to share.  And our child is also not AS.[/quote]

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