Stress vs. Opportunity

Happytimes2001
Fri, 06 Apr 2018 14:51:56 +0000

@twinmama17 One thing not mentioned above is the size of the cohort can affect if your kiddo finds like minded students. In a cohort of 80-100 ( the size to which my kiddo applied ) it’s pretty small so there are no guarantees. In larger schools, 300 or so your kid is almost guaranteed to have similar kids to your own. The larger schools for us were more about brand names so the positive of the larger size canceled out what we were looking for as a family-great academics and personal development. The competitive hype around name brand was less important. My kiddo also did not find a like minded “nerd” at revisits. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
Making fun of a teacher shows many things among them, disrespect, poor upbringing, and negative social collusion. I would not be sending my kiddo there. At the school we are leaning to, kids were all really nice and not arrogant.