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[quote=Anonymous]The reality is that no school admissions officer, parent, or teacher can know for certain what a child’s academic fit will be around middle school based on the child’s talents and personality at age 3, 4, or 5.   Too much development occurs in that timeframe.

I am with the camp that says the transition from any school to STA will be challenging, but if the fit is right, the boy will rise to the occasion.

Too many parents focus on feeder schools and Top This or Top That rather than what works best for their child at the child’s current stage.

NCS would have been a bad fit for my daughter but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t well educated. She just isn’t one inspired by traditional pedagogical methods.  STA, on the other, while a tough transition academically for my son, was the right fit.

I disagree with the PP who thinks her son who came from another school is “doing better” than the B kids simply based on his grades.  There is more to life in success in academics and while my son is newer there, plenty of the lifers have other wonderful qualities that will serve them well in life even the ones that aren’t mostly A or straight A students.

Nothing bad will happen if your child goes somewhere else than NCS or STA.  My daughter has never done better academically or intellectually than being at a another school that has a more progressive approach to education. It isn’t a big three, but she will go farther in her life going there than she would have at NCS.  Not because, NCS is a bad school (it is amazing), but because it wasn’t the one that would bring out the best in her.[/quote]

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