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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is silly. The “longtime Lowell teachers” didn’t leave - they retired (and good for them). The head of primary school didn’t leave after one year - she was named interim head for a year, because she planned and then did move to the west coast.  Attrition rates are low and what you would expect — a few kids leave from 5th to 6th because they get into top K-12s and their families don’t want to risk waiting for HS to apply, maybe 1 will depart for public school, and that’s it. Plus more kids join in 6th, which is nice because the cohorts could use some new personalities by then to mix things up.

Always amazes me how much people on here like to create drama when what the OP seeks is just basic information. [/quote]

It’s great you have had a good experience, we did not, particularly with the parent community. As much as Lowell says it celebrates differences, that just isn’t the case. If you don’t tote the party line, it’s not pretty. We are a liberal leaning family and parents simultaneously putting signs out “follow the science” while doing anything but was extremely off-putting. That example was obviously from COVID but permeates throughout. Parents say they are open-minded but really aren’t but are so arrogant in believing they are, it’s nauseating. We witnessed poor administration and teachers vocally unhappy. But different schools for different folks. No school is perfect but the negatives for us at Lowell did not outweigh the positives. Lowell may be the school for you  don’t try and diminish other’s experiences because they don’t fit your own. You are welcome to voice your positive experiences just as much as others are their negative. [/quote]

Are you saying Lowell did not follow the science during COVID? They were a touch more conservative than other schools, very much following the science. Ant that science dictates that as cases are rising, you make adjustments. When many other schools suddenly shut down because of outbreaks, Lowell was not required because they didn’t meet the minimum to be considered an outbreak.

There is always a balance, which means there are schools and people on either side. With immunocompromised students, faculty, and families in the mix, Lowell chose to consider options for protecting the more vulnerable, while also ensuring children weren’t missing in person classes, nor significant social learning due to prolonged mask requirements.

I am a mother at Lowell, and I have great respect both for thr Head of School and for the results of the policies she implemented that kept our numbers low, and dramatically kept any school wide spread down.  [/quote]

Hahahaha! I’m sorry, I have to outright laugh at the no prolonged mask requirements! Lowell had children wearing masks outside as late as last year. To the point many healthy children feared not wearing masks and it absolutely negatively affected them. That’s an entirely different topic though and we can agree to disagree but we have very different views on what prolonged mask-wearing entails. [/quote]

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