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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP- Nottingham is famous for having some of the toughest parents in the county...lots of vocal complainers in our community. If you are a reasonable person who knows how to partner with others, you will be happy with Nottingham! Dr Gardner is great and she does know her stuff. We have been very happy with our child's IEP team and we love Nottingham. There is also a new SLP this year and she is fantastic. She used to be in private practice and has a stellar reputation. Welcome to the neighborhood![/quote]

[b]I wouldn’t say Nottingham has the toughest parents, I think this could be said of any of the more affluent schools (which also includes Tuckahoe, Discovery and Jamestown)[/b]. Each of them has a contingent of parents who are entitled and demanding, with unrealistic expectations of a public school.  Each of them also has a lot of really nice, reasonable parents.  Focus on the latter rather than the former and you’ll find a good community within the school.[/quote]

Question. Taylor draws from some very wealthy areas, but I never hear much about the school one way or the other (in general, not necessarily IEP related), and I'm just curious what seems to set them apart, or at least keep them out of the fray. They just never seem to come up in any thread one way or the other, it's interesting.[/quote]

My theory is that the eastern half of North Arlington attracts a different, more chill kind of family. The houses in Donaldson Run and the neighborhoods that run up Military toward Washington Golf are plenty big and expensive, but many of them are older and less shiny than the teardowns surrounding Yorktown HS. I happen to live in one of those neighborhoods and have had neighbors say proudly (with a straight face) that our neighbors have middle class values (in $1.25 M houses). [/quote]

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