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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vibe is fairly crunchy (low screen use, not allowed to celebrate Halloween/normal holidays) and surprisingly high on SAHMs/part time working moms (which are pretty uncommon at surrounding Hill schools). Long term (founding) art teacher is retiring and given her prominent influence on the school (great art classes, but also awkward over focus on racial justice issues), it will be interesting to see what gets shaken up.[/quote]

Not OP, but I've seen this "crunchy" reference about SWS a few times now and would welcome more info and examples. The Halloween thing sounds weird. I'm a working parent with fairly progressive views who values play, nature, and arts for ECE and academics and relatively lower tech for beyond. Could someone share more specifically what is it that's so "awkward" about their focus on justice issues? This wasn't exactly something I put on a list that a school needs to explicitly focus on, though I'm also not trying to go to a school of revisionist history. I'm not white and my background was lower/middle class. Trying to gauge if I would end up eye-rolling if it'd somewhat resonate.

How do SWS and Chisolm compare community-wise? Probably hard to because of the language factor but take a swing at it.[/quote]

The fact that you’re a working parent will cause you to get annoyed with SWS. This was years ago, but my spouse and I were both working. I did not have time to take off constantly for some nonsense reason. I found the principal to be the type of person who covered up his rigidity and ineptitude by constantly talking about race. I also found the parents hard to take. I don’t think the academics are anything special. I was constantly told how advanced some peoples children were but the metrics they used were laughable.  I personally left for an immersion school thinking that even if their academics were weak (they were better than SWS IMO) my kids would have a pathway to dci and learn another language. I think that was a good choice. I do miss the easy commute though![/quote]

Interesting that you started off not doing the immersion and then switched. Are you able to share which immersion school? Do you mean you switched at PK4 after a year or later on?[/quote]

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