Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 21:37     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don’t disagree — the equity pledge was on a tour i was doing of a K12 once we decided to leave. We didn’t end up finishing the app because I just decided I preferred k8. It was a random occurrence at a school I don’t actually know other than I didn’t apply so I don’t want to name it. I find the DEI stuff hypocritical and noxious, but my breaking point was the corruption. I just didn’t trust the place with my kid’s grades or to be fair to non donor children. I also, and you don’t have to agree, was not super blown away with the academics or the kids, but the HS might be insanely impressive. Even if it was, it wasn’t worth putting up with the snob environment. I love how much people on this thread hate on the suburbs and then raise children obsessed with brand names and luxury the same way the kids are in the ‘burbs. Wealth whispers! Elite people know that.




quote=Anonymous]Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)

So -- the pledge was not at HM after all? Were you leaving HM because you felt it was corrupt or snobby or not impressive academically? piecing it from the style, she was leaving Brearley...
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 21:27     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t disagree — the equity pledge was on a tour i was doing of a K12 once we decided to leave. We didn’t end up finishing the app because I just decided I preferred k8. It was a random occurrence at a school I don’t actually know other than I didn’t apply so I don’t want to name it. I find the DEI stuff hypocritical and noxious, but my breaking point was the corruption. I just didn’t trust the place with my kid’s grades or to be fair to non donor children. I also, and you don’t have to agree, was not super blown away with the academics or the kids, but the HS might be insanely impressive. Even if it was, it wasn’t worth putting up with the snob environment. I love how much people on this thread hate on the suburbs and then raise children obsessed with brand names and luxury the same way the kids are in the ‘burbs. Wealth whispers! Elite people know that.




quote=Anonymous]Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)

So -- the pledge was not at HM after all? Were you leaving HM because you felt it was corrupt or snobby or not impressive academically?
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 21:00     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
I actually can’t tell if the people saying things like “low brow Catholic” are parody are not. Liberal arts is small l liberal not the Democrats. It means being okay with people you don’t agree with.

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)


Can you name a Republican (or even moderate) boarding school? I’d love to send my children there. They’re all woke and spout the same equity curriculum


None... because EDUCATION IS A LIBERAL ENTERPRISE, nitwit. Stay where you are. No one wants your narrow-minded child in their schools. Go to some low-brow Catholic school where you belong.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 20:50     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
I don’t disagree — the equity pledge was on a tour i was doing of a K12 once we decided to leave. We didn’t end up finishing the app because I just decided I preferred k8. It was a random occurrence at a school I don’t actually know other than I didn’t apply so I don’t want to name it. I find the DEI stuff hypocritical and noxious, but my breaking point was the corruption. I just didn’t trust the place with my kid’s grades or to be fair to non donor children. I also, and you don’t have to agree, was not super blown away with the academics or the kids, but the HS might be insanely impressive. Even if it was, it wasn’t worth putting up with the snob environment. I love how much people on this thread hate on the suburbs and then raise children obsessed with brand names and luxury the same way the kids are in the ‘burbs. Wealth whispers! Elite people know that.




quote=Anonymous]Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 12:56     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)


Can you name a Republican (or even moderate) boarding school? I’d love to send my children there. They’re all woke and spout the same equity curriculum


None... because EDUCATION IS A LIBERAL ENTERPRISE, nitwit. Stay where you are. No one wants your narrow-minded child in their schools. Go to some low-brow Catholic school where you belong.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 12:26     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:my concern was less for high school and more whether their elementary and middle school education was preparing them to excel in high school. my kids will look and apply in to high school and will know themselves at that point to make decisions on their own.

Makes sense.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 12:22     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
my concern was less for high school and more whether their elementary and middle school education was preparing them to excel in high school. my kids will look and apply in to high school and will know themselves at that point to make decisions on their own.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 11:54     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know he makes 3mil, but I am not sure how much weight I should give to that. He’s been there for 20+ yrs, obviously successful. When looking at high schools, I was more concerned about the other options, where administrations had a lot of flux. The thing about math is more concerning (b/c we actually care about academics!), what TT schools do you think are stronger in science/math than HM at high school level?


HM is very strong at math in the upper grades, particularly in terms of their high-level offerings for advanced students; they have enough accelerated kids in middle school to offer an official placement test to skip a grade in math, so you've got a bunch of them on track to have finished geometry before they start 9th grade, and pretty much the only places you're going to find more post-AP math offerings than HM has are Stuy/BxSci/HSMSE.


Thank you, that was my impression as well! So if joining in 9th grade, even if placed into the honors geometry, you will still be a year behind the most accelerated group?


I think so, but the course catalog is a little ambiguous, because there's also a sort of an advanced topics class that seems to be intended for kids who did 7th grade algebra to cool their heels for a year before high school. (also a note about not counting RSM etc, which people loading their kids up on pointless math tutoring should probably take to heart)
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 10:41     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know he makes 3mil, but I am not sure how much weight I should give to that. He’s been there for 20+ yrs, obviously successful. When looking at high schools, I was more concerned about the other options, where administrations had a lot of flux. The thing about math is more concerning (b/c we actually care about academics!), what TT schools do you think are stronger in science/math than HM at high school level?


HM is very strong at math in the upper grades, particularly in terms of their high-level offerings for advanced students; they have enough accelerated kids in middle school to offer an official placement test to skip a grade in math, so you've got a bunch of them on track to have finished geometry before they start 9th grade, and pretty much the only places you're going to find more post-AP math offerings than HM has are Stuy/BxSci/HSMSE.


Thank you, that was my impression as well! So if joining in 9th grade, even if placed into the honors geometry, you will still be a year behind the most accelerated group?
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 10:37     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:I know he makes 3mil, but I am not sure how much weight I should give to that. He’s been there for 20+ yrs, obviously successful. When looking at high schools, I was more concerned about the other options, where administrations had a lot of flux. The thing about math is more concerning (b/c we actually care about academics!), what TT schools do you think are stronger in science/math than HM at high school level?


HM is very strong at math in the upper grades, particularly in terms of their high-level offerings for advanced students; they have enough accelerated kids in middle school to offer an official placement test to skip a grade in math, so you've got a bunch of them on track to have finished geometry before they start 9th grade, and pretty much the only places you're going to find more post-AP math offerings than HM has are Stuy/BxSci/HSMSE.
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 10:30     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity

Is Trinity really that un-woke? Land acknowledgement at chapel, that teacher talking about sneaking ideology into instruction and how “white boys are the worst”…
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 10:21     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
I know he makes 3mil, but I am not sure how much weight I should give to that. He’s been there for 20+ yrs, obviously successful. When looking at high schools, I was more concerned about the other options, where administrations had a lot of flux. The thing about math is more concerning (b/c we actually care about academics!), what TT schools do you think are stronger in science/math than HM at high school level?
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 09:26     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Anonymous wrote:Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)


Can you name a Republican (or even moderate) boarding school? I’d love to send my children there. They’re all woke and spout the same equity curriculum
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 09:04     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
Also HM is probably the second most un-woke TT after Trinity, so if you're deeming them beyond the pale because of a talk about equity versus equality, you should probably give up on the whole project and find some Republican boarding school to send your kid to.

(or just send them to public school where they don't spend so much time hand-wringing about equity because they have an actually diverse student body)
Anonymous
Post 03/23/2026 09:01     Subject: Best private schools in NYC?
It's HM, you can stop tiptoeing around it; also their college placement director makes like half a million