Back to the original question, it is a little sickening. My 8th grade daughter is doing what I was expected to do in High School! I don’t live in Brooklyn so school options are limited. But I have heard that graduates from this school are much hailed by whatever High Schools they do go to. All I have to say is if my easy-A student is spendin 2.5 hours a night on homework, what are the hard-to-get-C students doing??? I wish it was acceptable to “track” students. But of course thats taboo.
The boys also, some boys can handle Bava Mezia in 5th grade, but many can’t. And of course its taboo to have a gemara class, and a non-gemara class because how are the “dumb” boys going to get into a good Mesivta. Makes me want to choke.
And mind you, NONE of this focuses on the non-essentials called middos.