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[quote=Anonymous]I am 9:26 and I don't think the upper grades at Shepherd are bad at all--but I think my child is having a hard time with them. Upper elementary is a time when kids start getting socialized, when gender divisions start to matter, and when conformity becomes an issue. Shepherd is a fairly traditional school, and most of the kids are from pretty traditional households. Girls like barbies and boys like sports. That being said, they take respecting others very seriously, and they do really try to make things work... and for that they have my respect. This is not a (to be blunt) black/white thing, or a socioeconomic thing: shepherd is an affluent school, with concerned and hard-working parents. (Although I've found pretty much everywhere, all parents are concerned and hard-working.) But it is also not an organic milk and yoga kind of school. If it was, many of its parents, who want their kids to excel, would have a fit. I did not originally consider myself to be a parent who wanted things like organic milk and yoga and painting about feelings in my child's school. This year has made me rethink that. [/quote]

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