Anonymous
Post 08/15/2020 19:15     Subject: Re:Private schools
Middlesex?
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2020 18:10     Subject: Re:Private schools
Anonymous wrote:Google Shady Hill story a few years ago about a law suit where school discriminated against a child with special physical needs. Other children in family were students and they would not take sibling with physical disability. Not a pretty story!


Are you sure you aren't confusing it with the Park School in Brookline? There was a discrimination suit in 2017...
As another poster pointed out, private schools under no obligation to accommodate severe physical or learning disability if they don't feel they can meet the needs of the child.
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2020 10:42     Subject: Re:Private schools
^ lower school. Not power. Oops.
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2020 10:42     Subject: Re:Private schools
Anonymous wrote:We, too, looked for progressive/joyful/nurturing private schools when we relocated. Overall, private schools seem more 'traditional' in the Boston area?
Shady Hill seemed to fit the bill the best, possibly Park School in Brookline for K-8.
For high schools, we will likely look at Cambridge School of Weston, Milton Academy, Rivers, Concord, vs public depending on what kind of learner my kid ends up being.

PS Don't rule out SHS based on location. They offer several bus routes (pre-covid).


Milton Academy has a power school for elementary.
Inly in Scituate may work for elementary.
Anonymous
Post 08/08/2020 09:11     Subject: Re:Private schools
We, too, looked for progressive/joyful/nurturing private schools when we relocated. Overall, private schools seem more 'traditional' in the Boston area?
Shady Hill seemed to fit the bill the best, possibly Park School in Brookline for K-8.
For high schools, we will likely look at Cambridge School of Weston, Milton Academy, Rivers, Concord, vs public depending on what kind of learner my kid ends up being.

PS Don't rule out SHS based on location. They offer several bus routes (pre-covid).
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2020 01:42     Subject: Re:Private schools
I am the OP--to the other parent looking, Birches in Lincoln looks interesting. Very small and new and quite progressive. Maybe too new for us, but tempting.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2020 14:45     Subject: Re:Private schools
Anonymous wrote:Google Shady Hill story a few years ago about a law suit where school discriminated against a child with special physical needs. Other children in family were students and they would not take sibling with physical disability. Not a pretty story!


I don't know the story, but private schools do this all the time. If they can't meet the needs of the child, they shouldn't and don't accept them.
Anonymous
Post 07/19/2020 14:22     Subject: Private schools
I'm not the OP, but we are also looking for a progressive private in the Boston suburbs. I'm not sure we want to commute to Cambridge.
Anonymous
Post 07/13/2020 03:37     Subject: Re:Private schools
Google Shady Hill story a few years ago about a law suit where school discriminated against a child with special physical needs. Other children in family were students and they would not take sibling with physical disability. Not a pretty story!
Anonymous
Post 07/10/2020 21:19     Subject: Private schools
I like SH but the community is VERY flashy, almost as if the parents and the school don't match.
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2020 15:39     Subject: Re:Private schools
Shady Hill in Cambridge
Anonymous
Post 07/07/2020 07:59     Subject: Re:Private schools
Sorry, looking for elementary not HS.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 14:34     Subject: Re:Private schools
I don’t know where you are looking in the area; there are lots of choices. We visited Concord Academy last year and were quite impressed.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2020 01:36     Subject: Private schools
Hi, it seems that the area private schools are either pretty intense and traditional or those billed as progressive seem like they are far less rigorous. Are there any progressive options that encourage deep thinking and hard work?