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[quote=Anonymous]Some are from me, and my kid didn’t go to Brearley, and I don’t know what you are talking about when you say Brearley mom. I pulled my kid from a hill and sent them to a K8 because I was tired of the parents, not that impressed with the academics, aka, they were making the same mistakes with math all these schools are (no math facts, all Singapore) and when asked for an absurd donation by the development office, I found out the headmaster made over 3 million dollars and felt like a moron.

These schools give the kids a ton of homework, but if they aren’t using a good curriculum, it’s just busywork. There are a lot of bad trends in education right now and some of the places go headlong into them because of poor leadership. I knew kids who went to these places in college, and it was a mixed bag. The ones who were born on third base but thought they hit triple are “on the links” a lot with the same kids they went to high school with, having the same arguments, trying to impress the same people. It was always something I wary about going into a K12, my kid being able to have a conversation outside her elite upbringing, the small world of it, but my friends now who went to these places grew out of the snobbery and are well-read and interesting so I gave it a go.

Mississippi is leading the nation in literacy for poor children simply by going back to the way to teaching reading the way we used to before whole word. We’d all do well to take a serious look at what our money is paying for. If it’s “connections” and attitude, great, not interested — a little too small town for the taste of someone who left a small town.[/quote]

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