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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can vouch for the fact that many of the teachers are nysmith do not have degrees. And they have no business having anything to do with children! It’s a very dangerous place to send your kid. I will always have guilt over sending my children there even though it was a short period of time.[/quote]

This is a ridiculous take. Every teacher at Nysmith has a degree. Some, not all, have teaching certifications, but having a teaching certification is immaterial to the question of whether or not one is a good teacher.

Nysmith has historically exceptional retention rates among both students and staff and a damn near spotless record for its nearly 40 year history. This is a troubling episode, to be sure, but let’s not pretend as though it’s somehow dangerous when you have literally tens of thousands of satisfied customers over their history whose kids have gone on to incredible outcomes.

And yes, middle schoolers are old enough to learn about the Holocaust at a surface level and do projects that force them to learn about terrible people. It’s part of how they hopefully learn not to be terrible people themselves.[/quote]

Unless you are a current or previously enrolled family, you have no business writing this post.[/quote]

Why?[/quote]

Because you have no firsthand knowledge to say “this is a ridiculous take.” 
My children were there for years and I know for a fact many of the teachers do not have degrees, and definitely not teaching degrees. [/quote]

You’re asserting that there are teachers at Nysmith who did not graduate from college. Are you sure you want to die on that hill?[/quote]

I’m not dying on any hill. I’m stating a fact.[/quote]

At a normal school, one would be able to look at the website and see the credentials of teachers. But Nysmith doesn't have bios for anyone but the founder's son.

Exactly. They get away with not being transparent about a lot. One of the many reasons we left the school.[/quote]

What is the value proposition behind Nysmith? I am a poor public school kid who went to a T10 school on athletic scholarship. The public school in Chicago  afforded me as much opportunity as I needed. My mother wouldn’t have entertained a school like this for a second - she had no education and her primary goal was to have her kids be fiercely independent. My kids went to the public school across the street. Sure they had it much easier than I did but with zero hovering or DCUM behavior ended up at Princeton. No need to get defensive here - I just can’t figure out the value. [/quote]

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