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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another WES family here and a [u]huge [/u]fan of our teachers.  They're well-educated, well-trained, experienced -- and they manage to make school both fun and inspiring for my children.  I could never say enough good things in particular about the elementary and all science teachers.

We weren't looking for a school to instill good values in our children (that's our job), but it has also been wonderful to see how WES reinforces the idea of doing the right thing vs the easy thing.  How the school makes intellectual curiosity and rigor the goal, not a perfect transcript and a status outplacement.

This is a school of kind and joyful children, guided by thoughtful and caring teachers.      [/quote]

AH, another PR-type posting for WES.  This is simply not true.  Parents buy the hype, look around, and get out quick.  Ask the Admissions office for figures on class turnover (if they will tell you - the exiting 8th grade class barely resembles itself at Pre-K).  Why?  There's got to be a reason.  And why are the upper years so small?  That alone should be setting off warning bells for you.  The school's endowment and finances  finances are not as strong as the other two schools mentioned so they have to take almost anything that is warm that  walks in the door, and, once in, they won't counsel the "warm-bodied" one out short of killing someone.  (Yes, I did have to report a pistol that was brought to school). My children were definitely not "joyful".  They were run down by excessive rote memorization, the bored teachers, cliques and general nastiness of the place.  I was turned off by the macho  mom gossip.  I was turned off by the mean girls and the violent boys.  My kids are now in public and pulling straight As and HAPPY!  And they look back upon their WES days with sadness and NOW tell me how depressed they were at WES.  We pulled some good teachers but mostly the lemons (still there) and it made for several bitter years until we abruptly decided one day that we had just had had  enough from  nasty faculty to administrators who worthless.  Many, many of my friends left before third grade.  I only wish we had left sooner.[/quote]

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