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[quote=Anonymous]OP here with a few additional thoughts.  By no means did my original post say that Bancroft is an awful school, nor that our experience has been uniformly negative.  Our son is mostly content going each day .  On the other hand, the issues I raised are ones I did not know about going in, and none of the Bancroft boosters--including friends and acquaintances we have in the neighborhood, where we have lived a long time--shared with us before we attended. We wished we had known how tough communicating with the school and our son's teachers would be going in.  Unlike the poster above, who gets texts from her kid's teachers (?!) we haven't been able to get any meaningful regular communication out of our son's teachers, and we're not alone in this experience in the class.

As to the quality of the teachers, I'd say our experience is decidedly more mixed.  Our son's teachers are certainly nice enough, but I think communication is a core part of their jobs, and we struggle with it with them.  I have also experienced some downright disturbing incidents with other teachers in the PS3 grade, including witnessing one teacher berating a student for sucking on her fingers while walking to class in the morning.  The teacher, who didn't know I was behind her, repeatedly mocked the child for acting "like a baby" and I was horrified.  I actually didn't even realize she WAS a teacher until she turned around--I thought she was the child's parent, which wouldn't have excused the behavior, but would have been marginally less upsetting.

I am glad there are families who are having good experiences, and I do think that family involvement is essential to improving the school. I just think it's worth folks knowing the different experiences current families are having there.  I know I would have wanted to.[/quote]

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