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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You delude yourselves, folks.  Your child leaves and another one takes his/her place.  Your children are just cogs in the wheel.  Occasionally, a special bond might form, but for the most part, everyone is just passing through and will not be missed when they are gone.[/quote]

I think you need to distinguish between The School as an institution and the human beings who make up the faculty and administration at a given school. Of course "the school" doesn't "care" deeply about a particular child (unless the child either brings great glory to the school or great trouble), but this is because institutions don't have feelings... mmm hmmm. But humans have feelings, and institutions can have climates that do or don't encourage and enable teachers and staff to take a genuine interest in the children.

Our kids are at Burgundy, and I do feel that overall they've had enormously caring teachers: teachers who stop us when they happen to run into us to tell us funny or touching anecdotes about our kids, who call us when they're worried about our kids, etc. Overall Burgundy feels like a very caring environment: administrators and staff know everyone's name, and there's genuinely an atmosphere of affection. Yes, we've encountered a few duds among the teachers and staff -- a couple of cold-fish/burned out folks-- but even there, the administration tried very hard to work with us an other parents to address our concerns. Contra the cynics, OP, I think that if you truly feel that teachers and administrators don't care about your child, you should look for another school.[/quote]

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