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[quote=Anonymous]Our kid is at Baruch and this mostly matches our experience - no pressure about rich/poor, everybody dresses cheaply, and big groups of kids take the bus together (particularly from Chelsea). But hardly anybody in her class had outside tutoring; it was much more of a thing when we lived in the suburbs, even the smart kids who didn't need it had tutors there. The only tutoring I heard about this year was for the Hunter test, and most of that by parents.

Also quite agree about middle school socialization - she made a bunch of shallow friendships easily, while her younger brother moved here for 4th grade and has had a much harder time because everybody at his school already knows each other, so I'm actually looking forward to getting him into an environment where everyone is new. And the Yonder pouch thing seems to have been enforced more aggressively at the start of the year, kids came up with workarounds and nobody seems to have stressed about them that much.

Regarding Wagner, we're actually looking at that as an option for our younger kid, as we're moving uptown for commute reasons. At Baruch, they're starting to roll out smaller class sizes with 6th grade this year, and the "screened program" covers 2/3 of the school and there's not much differentiated instruction beyond that - is the situation similar at Wagner? Do the kids actually have lockers? (Baruch doesn't, which is a big pain) And is there any choice about specials or language classes?[/quote]

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