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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love how the bar in this thread just keeps getting lower and lower. [/quote]

Not really. The fact is nobody can ever be assured their kid is in the perfect school. My relative who sent her “high achieving” kids to private regrets it because the publics weight grades for college admissions. Friends who sent kids to top privates whose kids emerged with serious mental health/addiction issues and lackluster grades. Other relatives who spent $$$ to move to the “best” public school zones are disappointed that their kids got “shut out” from Ivys. Meanwhile I see that nephew who is supposedly a disappointment for “only” going to a lesser known state college is actually a wonderful wonderful young man who cares for younger cousins and leads all the games and fun at Thanksgiving. Likewise relative who flunked out and went to community college is now a professor.

This is all to say, schools don’t guarantee anything about your child’s success. And I am hesitant to say this because I KNOW I will be accused of being a “virtue signaler” but being at a high poverty school has if anything made me more concerned for the at-risk kids and less concerned about my own kid. The criticisms I do have about EH’s curriculum etc (which are actually more general to all of schools these days than specific to EH) are more acute because I see that they are going to impact other kids more than mine.

Finally one big thing that was not visible to me when I was making this decision last year was how reassuring it is to see that the EH administration, teachers & staff are on the ball. Actually a big step up from elementary school. You will not feel like your kid is in a “bad” school.

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This comment is notable to me for its complete focus on college admissions (which seems to be a proxy for "your child's success").  I don't want my kids to be challenged in school so they get into a better college; I want them to be challenged so they learn more, develop their interests, etc.  I don't need my kids to attend a perfect school -- goodness knows I didn't, and I turned out okay -- but I would like them to attend a school where they are actually learning -- content, study/organizational skills, how to stick with hard things.  And I am really skeptical about how well they can do that in a classroom where a huge proportion of kids aren't even at grade level -- though I do appreciate you posting, and am glad you have had a good experience.  I hope to continue hearing good things about EH -- I genuinely would love to be able to send my kids to our neighborhood school.[/quote]

What makes you think your kids can’t learn if they are in a classroom with kids who struggle more than they do? Is there any natural stopping point to what is “actually learning,” or will you not feel likey they are “actually learning” unless they are surrounded by a homogeneous group of high SES kids? Because I promise you, my kid is actually learning at EH.  
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