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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ve had kids at both SSSAS and Burgundy for MS. SSSAS was the far better experience both socially and academically. There is absolutely no comparison.

SSSAS has a block schedule, PE or athletics (7/8) 4x a week, an hour for lunch and recess and a daily STAT period to meet with teachers. I actually found it to be more progressive in how they teach and the projects they have the kids do. The faculty and administrators at SSSAS are much stronger than those at BFCDS and they actually teach the kids executive function skills. There are also close to 100 kids in a grade versus 25-30 at BFCDS which makes it a much better environment socially. You will find your people.

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[b]If your kid is even slightly outside whatever current middle schoolers consider “normal” or “popular”, Burgundy Farm is absolutely the better choice.[/b] SSSAS is filled with cliques and desire for popularity is a real thing. This just isn’t a thing at Burgundy and the kids remain younger in their interests (not much into name brand clothes, “dating”, etc.) as a result.[/quote]

I will echo that. My child was there for a middle school. Overall the experience was ok.  Some really great teachers and some not so good ones. Went on to public high school. The writing instruction was way superior than anything in public middle schools from what I could tell. The class sizes are small so if your child doesn't find a couple of friends and stick with them it can be an issue. Not to the degree where they are bullied or made fun of outright but just not included much in non classroom and non school activities.[/quote]

Sorry, just to clarify - you are saying you found that the writing instruction at Burgundy was better than public middle school?  Or it was better at public HS than public MS?[/quote]

Yeah I am confused as well[/quote]

Sorry for the confusion - what I meant was my child is now in public HS. The students who came from public MS seemed to get almost no writing instruction. Even in advanced classes in HS teachers were teaching the very basics of paragraph writing which shocked me. At Burgundy, by 8th grade my child wrote a literary analysis essay that was a couple of pages long.  So I felt the writing instruction was solid at Burgundy compared to what would have been offered at public MS.
HTH[/quote]

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