The school thing is so weird even after experiencing it firsthand. I’m on the west coast and our k-8 had a few families relocate to bigger ski towns than our local mountain for the winter of 2021 when upper grades were still doing outdoor classrooms and hybrid. At the time we had an interim head who didn’t really have any control of things. In 2022 it was still tolerated- one family I can think of was both a big donor family and had a rather disruptive kid that no one liked. Unclear what will happen this winter.

I’m fascinated by the difference in mindset between people like me (follow the rules, afraid to ask for exceptions) and people who create their own privilege.

I used to enjoy the site, but recently it’s annoyed me how it is really a shopping site, not a fashion site. The focus is all on buying shit, not how to creatively assemble outfits from stuff you might already have. It seems at odds with Shana’s supposed “wokeness”—she often posts about environmental issues, not acknowledging that textiles are one of the leading sources of landfill waste and her cheerleading for consumption is a direct contributor to that.

It looks like the boys attend green mountain school where athletes train and school nov-April. They attend their “home schools” the rest of the time.

Her kids could study at the ski academy where they train or they can attend school in the town where she has her second home/airbnb. Lots of wealthy parents take their kids out of their primary schools and bring them up to Vermont for the ski and ride season. There are boarding schools, too. I don't know how the quality would compare, but it is done quite frequently. According to her mom's blog they bought their home so they would have a place to stay during ski season. She probably rents it out for $400/night for the rest of the year and makes enough profit to pay for their ski school tuition which could be over $20,000 a season not including equipment or travel. l

I used to enjoy her blog, but once she started focusing on $200+ jeans and $400 sweaters it was no longer relevant to me given my fashion budget.

^ interesting.

I have enjoyed Mom Edit less recently. A couple of the bloggers post WAY more than others, and I don't know why but the photos where their heads are always turned looking into the distance annoy me beyond belief. Why don't they look at the camera? Laura literally is always looking away.

Who knew Shana’s mom has a blog? Look at her Christmas 2021 blog. She explains they bought a house in Vermont and how boys go to school.

https://billandtinaostwald.com/

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I should have included in my post that it seems that her kids go to regular Philly public schools in the fall and spring, they just move to VT for the winter. If they home schooled all year I would understand it better.

Some of the ski academies do just winter semesters.

Yes, but most public schools in other parts of the country aren’t going to excuse kids for 3 months to go ski.

They do t have a choice. People are aloud to move. If there kid is enrolled in a academy, it isn’t like their kid isn’t enrolled in an accredited school. Academy programs just have a different daily schedule to accommodate sports. We have a friend who’s daughter does horse jumping in season in Wellington and attends an academy there and the rest of the year attends her zoned school in the DC area.

Neighbor has a kid in a golf academy school in SC. They have longer breaks because a chunk of the kids are from overseas.

We do long trips with our kid who is not in an academy. He is a great student, so if husband school wants to fail him, fine. Experiences he has teach him a lot more than school.

All interesting. Do you know how schools flowd vis a vis the academies? Like for a high schooler - maybe their geometry class is studying vectors in November, and then when they switch to the academy school that is what their geometry class is studying in January? Or do the academies provide indovidualized education to match the order of their home school classes? I know nothing about this and it fascinates me. I get worried about the “catch up” if my kids miss more than a few days of school due to illness!

All depends on the academy and the school. Some work hand and hand. The academies that value academic instead of just trying to click the education block are typically ahead/on the more advanced end due to the almost personalized education. The kid we know at golf academy has 3 kids in his math class.

This is correct. I have kids at a ski academy.

Anonymous wrote:I think there are ski academies in places like Vermont where they will provide the educational element to complement the skiing. How well this works in practice, I don’t know.

I grew up in a ski town in Colorado that had a private ski academy high school. It was a boarding school that offered classes in the morning, and then the coaches, some of whom were also the academic teachers, would take the students up in the afternoon for training. It was freakishly expensive but a cool experience for a lot of kids. They cranked out several Olympians.

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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I should have included in my post that it seems that her kids go to regular Philly public schools in the fall and spring, they just move to VT for the winter. If they home schooled all year I would understand it better.

Some of the ski academies do just winter semesters.

Yes, but most public schools in other parts of the country aren’t going to excuse kids for 3 months to go ski.

They do t have a choice. People are aloud to move. If there kid is enrolled in a academy, it isn’t like their kid isn’t enrolled in an accredited school. Academy programs just have a different daily schedule to accommodate sports. We have a friend who’s daughter does horse jumping in season in Wellington and attends an academy there and the rest of the year attends her zoned school in the DC area.

Neighbor has a kid in a golf academy school in SC. They have longer breaks because a chunk of the kids are from overseas.

We do long trips with our kid who is not in an academy. He is a great student, so if husband school wants to fail him, fine. Experiences he has teach him a lot more than school.

All interesting. Do you know how schools flowd vis a vis the academies? Like for a high schooler - maybe their geometry class is studying vectors in November, and then when they switch to the academy school that is what their geometry class is studying in January? Or do the academies provide indovidualized education to match the order of their home school classes? I know nothing about this and it fascinates me. I get worried about the “catch up” if my kids miss more than a few days of school due to illness!

All depends on the academy and the school. Some work hand and hand. The academies that value academic instead of just trying to click the education block are typically ahead/on the more advanced end due to the almost personalized education. The kid we know at golf academy has 3 kids in his math class.

Anonymous wrote:I use to follow the blog but I don’t think her style has evolved beyond silk camis, oversized sweaters and jeans. So I lost interest.

She's like most of the bloggers: they are trapped in the styles they started with when they began fashion blogging.

Anonymous wrote:Spoken like someone who hasn’t been diagnosed with breast cancer, had chemo, and reconstruction. I hope you don’t have that attitude around friends.

I had stage 3b breast cancer, it was why I felt I could say it.

Spoken like someone who hasn’t been diagnosed with breast cancer, had chemo, and reconstruction. I hope you don’t have that attitude around friends.

Anonymous wrote:I’m just glad she’s healthy! It was so scary when she had cancer. I’m so glad those boys still have their mama and are skiing and having fun!

Of course it is good she is healthy and cancer free, but she had like stage 0 or stage 1 bc.