Episcopal Academy or Haverford School?

ThacherParent
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:04:56 +0000

Crack me up oldcheme!

You say:

if your child is male, and you value development of academic and athletic skills prior to social activity, then you should strongly consider Haverford.



Aside from the fact that I think you meant “instead of or more than,” not “prior,” are you actually claiming that a boy who values academics and athletics more than social activities would be better suited to Haverford? That is really off base, although amusing. Both schools do a superb job of prioritizing and balancing academics and athletics.

The single sex vs. coed choice is personal. There are advantages to both paths depending on the child. When I went to EA, it was single sex. Going coed was a very smart decision however. It has served EA beautifully, socially and statistically. You simply cannot generalize about single sex being better or worse than coed, only better or worse for a specific child.

While I do not favor EA having moved its campus to Newtown Square (too white bread for me), the new campus itself blows Haverford’s away. Educators from around the world visit the School because the new campus is huge, state of the art and architecturally fascinating.

The schools are very different culturally and always have been. I like to think, and here comes my bias, that Episcopal is the more polished and courteous of the two!