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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The board traditionally includes former parents too as well as one or two trustees who do not have children who ever went to the school.

The characterization of a dynamic where the head of school wields power over parents (or the 3/4 of families whose kids apply to private schools) because he or she gives guidance and communicates with schools during the ongoing school application process is just wrong. Ongoing schools ultimately do as they wish and decide for themselves which applicants they will accept. The decision is not up to the head of a preschool.

There is so much misinformation and hysteria on this thread. I feel like I’m reading The Crucible. If you are a current or former NCRC family or are thinking of applying for next year, who not ask these questions of the school, and not an anonymous, unreliable forum.

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Oh okay. So was I imagining it when James would ask each family to share with him their #1 school so he could go lobby on the family’s behalf at the school?  [/quote]

You were imagining it if you think it had any real influence. Of course he goes to each desired school, applications in hand, and pleads the case for the each kid. That's part of what you are paying for at NCRC. And often, it's successful, because schools like Sidwell and Beauvoir know that they are generally getting good eggs in terms of families/ kids that come from NCRC. But it's not JC who actually "gets them in."  Please tell me you're not naive enough to believe that.[/quote]

It may not be determinative, but it either has or is perceived to have influence (as you say, that's part of what people are paying for). And that in turn could influence how parents act around him, either because he does or is feared to advocate differently for different families.[/quote]

Well, people are stupid, aren't they?[/quote]

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