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[quote=Anonymous]"Best" schools are not necessarily equal to "elite" or "top tier" schools. When I looked at K options 3 years ago, I asked 2 main questions: (1) which method do you use to teach reading and (2) how do you teach math. When I heard from a school that their answer to (1) was "balanced literacy" (a highly ineffective but popular progressive method), I immediately crossed it off my list. That took care of a few popular schools and made my decision easier. At the end, I went for a less known school that prioritized hard core phonics for reading and Singapore math. Now my child is in the 2nd grade and she seems doing very well. So are most kids in her class. I may review options once again when my daughter gets older but my experience so far has made me quite skeptical about reputation of some (not all) elite schools.[/quote]
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