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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Make sure the schools can meet your DD's learning needs. Field is open to students with minor learning differences but it is not an LD school and may not have the specific expertise. Frankly they probably won;t accept a student whose needs they can't meet.

Students are happy at both schools but they have very different cultures. St. Andrews has uniforms and is very traditional. Field is a progressive school. My DS who is at Field would not have been happy at St. Andrew's because of the culture of the school and that works both ways.[/quote]

Perhaps the above poster is thinking of a different school, because the statement above is simply false regarding St. Andrew's.  St. Andrew's middle and high schools have NEVER had uniforms, at least since I first looked at the school 8 years ago.  They have a very low key dress code -- (no jeans, boys shirts should have a collar, girls clothing shouldn't be overly revealing -- although some girls also push the limits on that one).  Once in a while -- like maybe once per month or so -- the school has a dress up day (boys wear a tie, no jacket).   The lowest elementary school grades -- which really was the St. Frances school that merged into SAES several years ago and is based on a different campus, has uniforms.  And to say St. Andrew's is "very traditional" is absurd.  It is not a school grounded in the "progressive" movement, but St. Andrew's emphasis on teacher training through its Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning and its research partnership with the Harvard School of Education is anything but traditional. http://www.thecttl.org/
I posted above a partial side-by-side comparison with suggestions for how to decide between SAES and Field for a specific student, but false information about any school cannot help a family make good choices.    [/quote]

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