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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is currently at St. Andrews, and we love it.  We are lucky that he's thriving and happy.  Enrolling in a private school is not like enrolling in a public school.  Public schools are required to accommodate everyone.  I went to a public school in this area, and think they are great.  However, my son does better in a small setting, so we've kept him in private schools.   As parents, we all want our children to be happy and accepted, and do our best to provide that.  Unfortunately, the world does not work that way.  We all go through life looking for acceptance, and make our decisions to stay at jobs, frequent stores or restaurants, join gyms and make friends based on that feeling.   It's important to teach a child how to handle these situations and remedy them.  Instead of slamming one school over another because they didn't provide what your child needed, it's our responsibility as parents to keep looking for the best possible place.  It's also our responsibility to teach children to be citizens of the world and understand that their interaction impact that world.

BTW, St Andrews Center for Learning is partnered with Harvard not Hopkins.
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Just curious, you claim you are having a great experience, but you did not mention if your DC has any sort of learning differences.  If not, then your post is useless to OP and does not apply on this thread.  If your child is a mainstream learner, then he or she would likely do well in most settings.[/quote]

Not the PP, but I beg to differ.  The above information is very helpful to some readers.  I am applying to St. Andrew's and my son has no "diagnosed learning difference".  But, he finds his public school too loud, annoying, distracting and he generally seems to get  lost in the big class. I don't know if he has some undiagnosed sensory issue that makes him feel this way but I KNOW he learns completely differently from his older sibling who is thriving at the public school system.

So, to me learning differences mean more that something that is documented by development psychologist. When I took a tour of St. Andrews MS, btw, it was very clear to me that they hope to meet the needs of wider variety of kids than the public school's can because their smaller class size enables them to do things differently. They take their investment in the "community" very seriously.  That said, they did not indicate to me that they could meet EVERYONE's needs.  Also, as for the "happy kid" marketing, my take away from that was that they do not foster a zero-sum competitive environment that pits kids against each other, they recognize that stressing kids out is not productive to their learning.  I don't think that means "anything goes." [/quote]

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