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Hi I just wanted to know what you all think about brooklyn high schools!!! I like to hear other peoples opinions on these things! thanks!
Take what you will from this:
I live in Brooklyn. I sent all my kids to schools out of Brooklyn for high school.
The Wolf
(Note: They commuted each day. They did not go to an out-of-town boarding school.)
You gotta ask some specific questions about specific schools…
which schools??
This is not exactly what you are looking for, on the following thread I posted a bunch of links to other threads about Yeshivos in Brooklyn (Elementry – but most of them have High Schools as well)
theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/looking-for-a-elementary-yeshiva
(Please use this helpful search tool for already statrted topics before starting a new thread: http://j82.us/searchyw.php Thank You!)
SiDi™
Im starting highschool!! AHHHH!!!
They weren’t accepted in local schools? Because of someone’s proudly crowing about his rishus?
Every child is unique. A school may be great for one child but a disaster for another. That’s particularly true of schools that have a cookie-cutter approach. I’m not mentioning names, but I hold a particular Brooklyn high school partially responsible for a child going OTD.
They weren’t accepted in local schools? Because of someone’s proudly crowing about his rishus?
No. I didn’t even apply to any. They weren’t right for my kids.
Furthermore, I’d like to think that a school judges it’s applicants on their own merits, not their kids’ merits.
Why not D’rav Meir or Machon? They are excellent schools!
They may very well be excellent schools. But because a school is an excellent school, that doesn’t mean that it’s an excellent school for every child. Neither of those schools were appropriate for my daughter.
The Wolf
not their kids’ merits.
Sorry. Epic fail on my part. Let’s try that again:
Furthermore, I’d like to think that a school judges it’s applicants on their own merits, not their parents’ merits.
The Wolf
Wolf,
A school knows that it can only work together with parents. They cannot fight parents. Why would they think they can be successful or for that matter not detrimental when a parent proudly and loudly proclaims the opposite of what the school is trying to teach.
Besides, how much merit of his own can a child beginning school have yet? The school has to work with attitude. Will there be a positive attitude towards learning the lessons of the school and will lessons be reinforced in the home.
And we already see that *someone* has already determined that a parents actions should impact if they are accepted in school. See this brilliant thread.
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/should-someone-who-is-considering-murder
A school knows that it can only work together with parents. They cannot fight parents. Why would they think they can be successful or for that matter not detrimental when a parent proudly and loudly proclaims the opposite of what the school is trying to teach.
Perhaps. You may have a point here.
They weren’t accepted in local schools? Because of someone’s proudly crowing about his rishus?
By the way, I’ll thank you not to spread false rumors about me. Unless you know me, you have no way of knowing which school we applied to, if we were rejected from any and, if so, why we were rejected.
The fact of the matter is that I did not apply to any schools in Brooklyn for my kids for high school. So, unless you have evidence to the contrary (which you can’t have, because it didn’t happen), I’ll thank you not to tarnish my reputation further than it already is.
The Wolf
Wolf,
You commented “Take what you will from this:
I live in Brooklyn. I sent all my kids to schools out of Brooklyn for high school.”
To knowitall’s query about about High Schools in Brooklyn. Thus leaving up to the readers to figure out what you mean. I know there a whole bunch of fantastic high schools in Brooklyn, so we wonder what else to take from it.
You will note that there was a question mark at the end. Meaning we were trying to figure out what you meant, and this was a guess.
Do not put words into my comment. It is something you seem fascinated with doing. I am not sure why.
You think someone repeating what you write is tarnishing your reputation? How can they be? If they are repeating what you say.
Must be that you find the silly talk about your rishus irritating. Well here’s a bit of news, we find it irritating when you do it as well. And it is not like you are proving anything with your spiel anyway.
Ciao
You think someone repeating what you write is tarnishing your reputation? How can they be? If they are repeating what you say.
Because you are stating that my kids were rejected from Brooklyn schools because I trumpet my rishus. In fact, I said nothing of the sort. *You* said that.
Want to say I’m wicked? Fine — I said that. I did not say that my kids were rejected from any school because of it — and I’ll thank you not to imply or state it.
Well here’s a bit of news, we find it irritating when you do it as well.
I’m sorry you find the truth irritating.
so we wonder what else to take from it.
I suppose it never occurred to you that it might be possible that I didn’t find any of the schools in Brooklyn appropriate for my kids and didn’t even apply? And that that was my response to the OP regarding his query — that I found the schools in Brooklyn wanting. Or was the “fact” that my kids were rejected the *only* possibility?
Even if I don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt, I think my children do.
The Wolf
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