Know a Good Elementary School?

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MOMMYOFTWO- Have you ever considered the possibility of Home Schooling? This is becoming a viable option for families who do not like mainstreaming, or can not find a place for their children to learn. The advantage is a one to one, instead of one teacher with many students. Learning can take place in a more creative and original environment. Keep looking for an appropriate school for your daughter, good luck.

MommyOfTwo-

A TV in the house is not a deal-breaker with Prospect.

If you are considering it (good move, IMHO) he are a couple of pieces of info:

-The girls wear uniforms which are tzniusdik by all standards. I don’t think a four-year-old would need a uniform yet.

-The parents are from across the spectrum, but I don’t know of any mothers who don’t cover their hair or do wear pants.

-The administration is excellent.

-The sooner you speak to them, the better. It can be tough to get into some schools, just because of the demand for available spaces.

-You can speak to the administration about questions and concerns, but of course put your best foot forward (dress-wise, etc.) Try to speak to other parents and (if you have contacts) administration members with questions that you would prefer not to bring up on an interview.

-If you end up sending your daughters there, it would be no surprise if you were pleased enough that you keep them there thru high school.

Once again, hatzlacha raba.

Mommy of two. Please, please disregard the recommendations of bored@work and I can only try. They mean well but the school they recommend hasn’t been the way they describe it in 15 years. I know many who have gone there. At best, the kids do ok but are miserable. At worst, they end up hating frum people and rebel. Don’t put your child in a such a situation.

what does IMHO stand for?

dont have internet – in my humble opinion

dont have internet – do you have internet?

thanx

Moshejoe-

I believe you mean well, but this is absolutely the wrong way of going about it.

If you have specific info you should let MommyOfTwo know of it PRIVATELY, and not besmirch an entire school publicly without providing information.

I am giving you the benefit of the doubt because I agree that Bais Yakov D’Rav Meir is also an excellent school.

I have some shaiches to Prospect, and I can clearly state that my info is up-to-date.

The parents of the girls who go there are overwhelmingly happy with the education and hanhala.

The girls who graduate are overwhelmingly well-educated, good, frum girls without the issues you described.

I have no idea where you got your info from, but it’s wrong.

Many of the current students are second and third generation Prospect kids, and many of them have the same teachers their mothers did.

MommyOfTwo-

I think the best advice I can give is to speak to parents who currently have their kids in a school – one of them is worth hundreds of anonymous bloggers.

does it work? ???

Don’t get how you do it???

I think what I figured out (I guess I’m right cuz it worked…)

is you type in “em” (instead of the quotes, type <> but I can’t do it because then it will show up as italicized and you won’t see the “em”…) then you type in what you want italicized and then type “/em” So it will look like this

“em” this is italicized “/em”

(exept that it’s with the < > instead of ” “)

If the following comes out in italics that means my instructions are good, otherwise I just succeeded in making a fool of myself!

Hello!

YOU’RE VERY WELCOME!

Keepinenterained, it is very likely that you indeed had an amazing school experience. I will be the first to tell you that there was a point in time when it was a top of the line school.

My intention was not to bash. Mommyoftwo asked for advice. Bored and Try offered their glowing recommendations which is their right, even though their opinion is in the minority. I offered my perspective to make sure mommyoftwo is not misled.

I wholeheartedly agree with ‘I can only try’ in one respect. Ask the parents who have their kids in any particular school and you will find out the truth.

Hatzlocha

MommyOfTwo-

While I value the relative anonymity we have on this site, “Mrs. Try” and I would be willing to be contacted by you and/or your husband to give more specific information. As I said, I have some shaiches to Prospect. I would of course request that you keep our personal information confidential.

I don’t know what Moshejoe’s motivations are for slandering the school with dishonest and ludicrous inuendo and smears.

What he is saying and the way he is going about saying it clearly violates several tenets of the Chofetz Chaim’s hilchos loshon horoh.

In addition this is a perfect example of makeh rei’aihu beseser – one who hits secretly, in this case attempting to publicly sully the name of a school with dozens of dedicated principals teachers and other staffers.

I say ludicrous as well, because no school that turns out kids as he described would stay in business, be it chasidish, litvish, sefardi, modern orthodox or ultra-orthodox.

I am NOT urging you to send your daughter specifically to Prospect – no school, regardless of how good it is fits all students.

There are many other fine schools, one of which may be more to your liking, or a better fit.

I am urging you to treat Moshejoe’s comments with the same validity as you would an anonymous phone call received in the middle of the night, with a whispering voice on the other end saying the things he said.

Mommyoftwo,

When asking the parents who have their children in any particular school what they think of that school, it is important to make sure to focus on asking those parents who have children presently in the younger grades. If you ask parents of children in the older grades or who recently graduated for their opinion, the reports you receive may be based on their experiences from a long time ago which occurred when other people were running the school. It would be as if you are asking about a school which no longer exists.

Hatzlocha