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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lafayette is terribly boring for my very advanced child. So there’s that. My kid started out as an enthusiastic learner before entering and now kind of dreads the academic stuff.

My kid likes the school for the most part. Many of the teachers are great. I haven’t found the parents to be particularly friendly, if anything they’re a bit cliquey.

The indoor recess so much last year was ridiculous.

It’s a ton of kids in the building and cafeteria. My kid gets sick a lot.

Mostly, It’s free so that’s where my kid is going. I think it’s overall a good school. [/quote]

Lafayette is stuffed full of parents who — despite all evidence to the contrary — call their kids “very advanced.” That’s all you need to know.[/quote]

+1 We’ve been at Lafayette for years and hear this all the time. And often times those same bored kids are in Mathnasium/Russian math school, and I  suggested once “maybe the extra tutoring is what is making the in class stuff now seem repetitive and boring?” But these kids are geniuses, so what do I know?

most interesting in all this is when they leave for private (sidwell, Maret, whatever) and they learn their kid is bored no matter how much money they pay.

My kid both loves Lafayette and consistently scores a grade+ ahead. We don’t do any tutoring. You can get an excellent education there without freaking out.

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