If you live in our area and are looking for great school for our kiddos–consider The College School. When looking for a school for our kids–we knew they wouldn’t go to public school–I looked long and hard at a lot of private schools and we have a lot of them in our city. There was one that stood out among the rest. We choose to send Noah to The College School. It isn’t the biggest and it isn’t the most diverse (but it’s more diverse than it was without Noah). But we are so happy with school as is Noah.
Here’s their mission:
The College School engages children, ages three to fourteen,
in joyful, meaningful and creative learning
through an adventurous, theme-based, experiential curriculum.
Our diverse community works as a partnership,
cultivating excellence in academics, character and collaboration,
as we prepare our students for life-long learning,
service and citizenship.
It’s a great school. Our open house is this Saturday the 14th from 12-3. Stop by and see the kids experiencing life and learning. Hope to see you there. Stop by the Big Bend room and say hi.
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Can I ask what went into your decision to send your kids to private school? I know you’re an educator and am curious to hear your thoughts on it.
I have a 9 month old daughter, and I know that I don’t want her to attend the high school in our neighborhood (38% graduation rate!– we live in inner city Indianapolis), but I’m having a lot of guilt about the private vs. public option for elementary school, since I know the state of public education will never get better if all the middle class educated parents send their kids to private. At the same time I think, why should my daughter be the guinea pig in my social experiment? I don’t judge your choice at all– would just like to know more about the thought behind it.
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Melody,
You’re right that I am an educator and a public educator at that. This is the fact that has led me to choose private school. We too live in the urban center of St. Louis. While we are in what people call the “suburbs” of the city our school district is still one of the worst in the country. As an educator, I want to improve the public schools and I will help do that as a teacher trainer and a public teacher myself–but I won’t sacrifice my kids education to make a political statement.
Even if I lived in the fancy suburbs with the upper middle class, my kids would still be in private school. Public school on many levels has stopped being about educating kids and have become about giving tests. The accountability system in public schools is skewed and I believe that our students are suffering. I choose a school that wasn’t about textbooks and tests but about kids and caring and learning.
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I wish we weren’t so dang far away. I’d love to check the school out! We don’t have any private school options here, IMO. We have so much to figure out.
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