Reply to Norwood Lower School

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "Norwood Lower School"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually when we started at Norwood, our "buddy family" said that a "gender divide" was part of the school culture - its reinforced by single sex parties mostly, and play dates.

This past year, our DD was invited to many, many, many girls parties but not a single party for a boy.[/quote]

This isn't a gender divide, it's basic finance. If you invite both sexes, you need to invite a lot more kids, and your party tab gets massive.

[/quote]

Its not a case of finance. The parents will invite EVERY girl in the grade or EVERY boy. Not just the classroom. If you invited your whole classroom of boys and girls it would actually work out cheaper (17-18 kids). When you invite all one gender, you're inviting about 25-30 kids.

And finance isn't a problem at Norwood. Many of the parents are loaded. At least those throwing parties are, for sure.[/quote]

Wow, so much wrong with this. Norwood has homerooms, but those homerooms intermix a great deal, especially at the younger ages...meaning if someone wants to invite all his/her friends, he can't just invite his class. And then, as a parent, you don't want just a handful of boys/girls left out...so you''re left with either having to invite just his homeroom and leaving out a bunch of friends, inviting all of one sex, or inviting everyone in the grade, which is both expensive and unwieldy.

As for your second comment...we'll, the less said about that kind of idiocy, the better. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics