Feeder Schools: Guaranteed to help for 9-12?

anngaryoliver
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:31:54 +0000

Whatever your highschool thoughts, as a transplanted Connecticut/New Yorker I can say that we have had the extraordinarily good fortune of having 2 children, each with different interests and needs, attend what we think are (not even) arguably the two best schools in the country, The Thacher School in Ojai, CA, where our daughter is a rising senior, and Harvard Westlake in Los Angeles, where our son is a rising freshman. They came from the spectacular Westwood Presbyterian Church Preschool to the terrific public elementary Warner Avenue School next door to UCLA, and were extraordinarily well prepared for the rigors of two astonishingly good schools—on every imaginable level. Although 1 & 3 seem awfully young to be worrying, when we look back and realize the fantastic start our kids were lucky enough to have, is there any such thing as starting too early? Education is the most important thing in the world to us, and whatever sacrifices need be made are sacrifices well worthwhile!