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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no perfect school. There are some that teach better material, have better teachers who have been there for decades, don’t suddenly push out long term employees and don’t chase every newfangled trend, notice that their math whizzes have slowed down because they can’t do arithmetic in their head, don’t overload the children with busywork at a stupidly young age and also don’t punish children if their parents complain. If you’re going to load kids down with so much work they don’t have time to read on their own, they should get something out of it.

quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to be able say you send your daughter to Brearley, send her to Brearley. If you want her to be able to critically think or know her multiplication tables, maybe have a long, hard think about which is more important  because right now it’s a choice.

(it’s not en vogue to teach math in ways we know works, it’s why everyone does Russian or Kumon because those ways actually do work. i figured out my kid did math facts on a computer which is why she didn’t reach fluency, i looked into and supplemented it on my own. all that homework, all those tutoring hours to fill out worksheets about how you feel about your friends rather than learning to do arithmetic in their head. no wonder they are cranky).
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So which is the school that you’re moving your child to that does everything the traditional way? I’m curious because all the private schools do the same thing. Brearley at least does Singapore Math, which is more traditional than Bridges and the like. [/quote][/quote]

I don’t see a better option for a gifted, hard-working girl than Brearley. To the poster who is upset with changes at the school, I don’t understand where you would move your child that would be better in terms of curriculum/peers. If you want a politically conservative school, there’s CGPS, but that school is not for us at all. I don’t mind an ever-evolving English curriculum. At one point, Jane Austen probably ruffled a lot of male feathers. Math is a different story. I agree that the new methods leave advanced learners behind. Beast Academy/Aops and RSM seem to be the best options but no school in the city is using those. As to suburban public school math, I was bored out of my mind in elementary—although yes, we went faster in than these days. The problem with that system is that when I got to middle school, I had no idea how to learn math — only how to memorize. So I see what they are doing with systems like Bridges. But yes, the slow pace drives me nuts…[/quote]

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