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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also want to say that St Ann's is not a cutthroat private school. No grades, no note taking, heavy interest in the arts. Puppetry and poetry are really big. A lot of self directed learning. I know parents who have been frustrated with the lack of rigor (ie they can spend an entire 11th grade semester on one novel .. which , okay, but kids go to college really not used to demands).

Admissions favors the rich and famous, by a lot, which helps with college admissions (full pay plus famous name). But also lots of room for grads to move on to places like SCAD and Culinary Institute or Parsons or Stella Adler or undefined gap years.

Which is all to say, I don't think it's unusual for a kid to be evaluated in early years as potentially an issue and then parents thought the ship was righted. And a kid whose future looked more like artist-baker than IB grinder would NOT be out of the norm. Because they all have granddad's money.

And I do understand the anger that comes from  "We Celebrate the Individual Child .. except you, son"

I really understand counseling out a behavior case from St Ann's or an academic case from most other privates. But this case from St Ann's seems unnecessary.[/quote]

10 bucks says the St Ann's administrators really wanted that seat and they already had a famous-wealthy family in mind to take it. They had to jettison this kid for a new entrant to 9th grade.

How many kids enter St Ann's in 9th grade? I'm sure current families can pretty easily figure out who it was that took the kid's seat. Bigger fish in a small pond. [/quote]

If they really want an applicant, any private school will find the room. They don't have to "jettison" a kid to do it.[/quote]

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