<p>Look, the Blue Man school may be deficient in some ways and outstanding in others. Frankly, if my second grader and most of her classmates were poor readers I’d be concerned. So there may be issues at this school with paying attention to/addressing kids’ academic performance. But this is a school pre K- fourth grade right? And fourth grade was just recently added? If so, we’re talking about the early elementary grades where it’s very common not to have textbooks and a relaxed curriculum, especially if the curriculum was Montessori-inspired. It could be that what we’re seeing here is the (frequent) conflict between the ideals of ‘experimental’ schooling and the reactions of highly ambitious parents. Maybe they simply decided that Blue Man isn’t focused enough, at his early stage, on getting their kiddos into Harvard in another decade.</p>