Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the attrition rate for rising 9th graders?

I don't know the numbers, but can say that fewer boys left since 4th grade up until now than in the US grades I am familiar with. In 2 of those grades, the attrition prior to 8tj grade was alarming.

What a rando post. "I don't have your information but let me make some breathless, unsupported claims on another matter!"

Anonymous wrote:What was the attrition rate for rising 9th graders?

I don't know the numbers, but can say that fewer boys left since 4th grade up until now than in the US grades I am familiar with. In 2 of those grades, the attrition prior to 8tj grade was alarming.

What was the attrition rate for rising 9th graders?

Anonymous wrote:We are coming from a public school. Son starts in the fall as a 9th grader. Any recommendations for summer school to prep him for more intense experience?

Congrats! St. Albans has a good and pretty modestly priced summer school program with offerings in the major areas (English, math, science, etc.). Is there any academic area which you think might be more challenging to him? I'm no expert, but my sense is that 9th grade English is tough for some kids (I'm sure a lot depends on how much your kid likes to read and how much writing he did in his middle school English classes). I think sometimes the 9th grade Biology class is seen as difficult also? For math, you don't hear as much from freshman/sophomore year -- the junior year precalculus class is the one that people worry about.

Good luck!

Anonymous wrote:We are coming from a public school. Son starts in the fall as a 9th grader. Any recommendations for summer school to prep him for more intense experience?

Sta offers great Summer programs. Welcome to STA! I would ask the school is there are any specific classes he needs to brush up on ie: language.

We are coming from a public school. Son starts in the fall as a 9th grader. Any recommendations for summer school to prep him for more intense experience?

Did anyone go to that optional prospective parent presentation the other day? Was it helpful?

Am STA parent and this is embarrassing.

You guys are going to need to move on from the Halloween party controversy or I'm going to have to lock this thread. I really don't think you are doing the victim any favors here and I"m not sure how repeating the same thing for the umpteenth time is going to help anyone.

How many boys were at the Halloween party? I think people are reading this as though every boy in the grade was invited but intentionally not one. But the original email said it was all the boys in a neighborhood except one. In our sons' grades, I can't think of any neighborhood with more than about 5 STA boys from a grade. And the boys in each neighborhood of course aren't necessarily best friends with each other.
Not at all defending exclusion and social bullying, just trying to understand the facts. I do think some messaging from school about these issues would be good. about being kind and including each other, reminding the boys they should support each other and the person you think you have nothing in common with this year might one day be your best friend, and so on, would be nice during the tough middle school years.

Anonymous wrote:PP, you are assuming you know all the facts of the case. Are you the plaster who is the one who first raised the Halloween incident?

If so, I think it was highly inappropriate to share in this forum. If you had issues with what happened, you should have spoken of it to other parents or the school administration.

You are part of the problem.

Nope, not me. But that person is not part of the problem, either.

PP, you are assuming you know all the facts of the case. Are you the plaster who is the one who first raised the Halloween incident?

If so, I think it was highly inappropriate to share in this forum. If you had issues with what happened, you should have spoken of it to other parents or the school administration.

You are part of the problem.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is out of hand, and it seems like the issues have been beaten to death. How would you feel if you were the family involved in this Halloween mess?

If I were the parent of the child who was excluded then I would feel vindicated that at least some people were shocked and appalled. I hope I also would recognize that many of the neighborhood parents, not just the party parents, are part of the problem.

If I were a neighborhood parent whose child attended, well, hopefully I would be mortified and chagrined that I hadn't said or done anything. I also would resolve to make amends so that the exclusion doesn't happen again. But the likelihood of that happening doesn't seem high, does it, based on the prior pages of this thread.

And I don't think the party parents have thought another thing of it. They're in situation normal for them and happy with it, basking in their superiority.

This thread is out of hand, and it seems like the issues have been beaten to death. How would you feel if you were the family involved in this Halloween mess?

You are right, I am a teenager