Anonymous wrote:...I think the other spanish teacher has been gone for almost 3 weeks, some family emergency I was told the sub doesn't speak spanish and I wonder how much these students are missing... 3 weeks is a very long time!! Stuff like this doesn't even even happen in public schools so why bfcds is doing such a bad job keeping the good teachers?? just saying..

Anonymous wrote:
It's true! the middle school has changed completely and the middle school head is a joke! It is so disappointing! The guy sent us an email asking us, parents, who pay almost 27K tuition not to email him because he "too busy".....hello?????
Not to mention the fact that all good teachers are leaving. Something's going on and we are angry! My DD is devastated because three very dear and good teachers have left in the middle of the school year and when you email the head of school and the middle school guy you don't even get an answer. That school is not what it used to be. Very sad


Unfortunately, this strikes us as not inconsistent with our experiences there.

Anonymous wrote:It's true! the middle school has changed completely and the middle school head is a joke! It is so disappointing! The guy sent us an email asking us, parents, who pay almost 27K tuition not to email him because he "too busy".....hello?????
Not to mention the fact that all good teachers are leaving. Something's going on and we are angry! My DD is devastated because three very dear and good teachers have left in the middle of the school year and when you email the head of school and the middle school guy you don't even get an answer. That school is not what it used to be. Very sad

Anonymous wrote:Burgundy parent here. While I would not dismiss the significance of kids leaving after 6th or 7th grade, missing out the last year or two in a JK-8 school, I think you have to know the circumstances to know the reasons. The rising 7th grade lost one student, who joined a sibling in public school. The rising 8th grade lost four, which IS a lot in a class of 32, but not devastating. One left because of unhappiness with the school -- OK, it happens. Among the other kids, at least one applied to a major DC private school for 8th grade to have an extra chance of getting in an "off year" for admissions -- ie, not 9th grade! Another one may have simply tapped out on the math curriculum -- this was a brilliant kid who probably needed to be in a 7-12 environment to continue flying through math. You CAN accelerate in math at Burgundy, but there is acceleration and then there is acceleration. I don't think this reflects poorly on Burgundy -- with 32 kids per grade, there is a limit as to what they are going to offer in terms of extremely advanced work. We are not talking about a normally gifted kid - there are loads of those at Burgundy. This kid was a real rarity academically. Not sure about the 4th kid -- I was surprised because she came from a longtime Burgundy family, but people have their reasons, not all of which are a knock on the school.

PP here -- Oh, by the way, I can think of two trustees whose children left before 8th but who still remained on the board of trustees. Neither was a critic of the school.

Anonymous wrote:Burgundy parent here. While I would not dismiss the significance of kids leaving after 6th or 7th grade, missing out the last year or two in a JK-8 school, I think you have to know the circumstances to know the reasons. The rising 7th grade lost one student, who joined a sibling in public school. The rising 8th grade lost four, which IS a lot in a class of 32, but not devastating. One left because of unhappiness with the school -- OK, it happens. Among the other kids, at least one applied to a major DC private school for 8th grade to have an extra chance of getting in an "off year" for admissions -- ie, not 9th grade! Another one may have simply tapped out on the math curriculum -- this was a brilliant kid who probably needed to be in a 7-12 environment to continue flying through math. You CAN accelerate in math at Burgundy, but there is acceleration and then there is acceleration. I don't think this reflects poorly on Burgundy -- with 32 kids per grade, there is a limit as to what they are going to offer in terms of extremely advanced work. We are not talking about a normally gifted kid - there are loads of those at Burgundy. This kid was a real rarity academically. Not sure about the 4th kid -- I was surprised because she came from a longtime Burgundy family, but people have their reasons, not all of which are a knock on the school.