Yeah! I looked at bit at the curriculum and it looks really cool. I feel like a lot of the schools I’ve looked at have really awesome courses, but especially this one and then the super duper progressive day school near me have some of the best ones. Of course, there are really awesome courses at all of them.
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CSW has always been wokeville central, even before “woke” took on its current meaning.
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I really liked CSW as a wildcard pick for D21, but ultimately dropped out because there are so few boarders. If they had more she would have applied. Not sure if she would’ve gone there, but we were both intrigued by the program.
I checked and it says that’s every other Wednesday. Nine out of ten days being regular school seems fine imo?
it is actually every Wednesday - I guess the Web site is not updated. The school operates on a 4 day academic schedule per week this year.
Oh, okay! It’s good to know that the site is a bit inaccurate.
I can verify that it is every Wednesday. There are a variety of things they do on Wednesdays, not just the PACE curriculum.
This is not new for this year. However, the academic schedule has radically changed this year due to Covid, and the attempt to be inclusive of all students, including those attending remotely. In class contact hours are gradually returning to previous levels.
I am curious: why are you so focused on math? Why not, say, foreign language?
And yes, I get that math is a building block to all things STEM. But CSW has been an artsy school for decades - in The Official Preppy Handbook (1980), CSW was on the top ten list of schools for “Preppies Gone Wayward.”
However, in spite of what has been said about the module system and math, there are plenty of CSW alums who have gone onto math-heavy careers, past and present.
And frankly, with “Hilaria Baldwin” as an alum, CSW needs to teach it’s current students to “do better”.
Math is just an example. Learning less of any subject - English, Math, Biology, Spanish etc cannot be the path forward that serves social justice or any other cause for that matter. A lot of peer schools have remote Wednesdays but CSW is unique in 0 academics Wednesdays.
All schools make time for non-classroom activities and/or non-academic classes. Chapel, art classes, sports teams, club, advisories, volunteer work.
They have a schedule that makes it particularly easy to create time for that.
I am sure that they have worked it out so that it is math AND social justice activity, no math OR social justice activity. Personally, I really like CSW. It’s a great school for a lot of different kinds of kids.
What would be dreamy…is if people were able to have a different opinion without being canceled. Indulge in the academics at prep school but leave the indoctrination behind and life will be dreamy.
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I think we would both agree that indoctrination – pushing beliefs on someone without analysis – is not the goal of any education. Education, by definition, is about analysis and critique. Which is why their course list sounds dreamy – because it offers a chance to analyze and consider points of view that have been absent from much of mainstream education. Which adds to the analysis/critique, doesn’t subtract from it.
I get that some of the topics may not appeal to everyone, though. And I get that it’s uncomfortable to consider how far from my experience others might have.
The list of sample courses offered as part of the social justice curriculum sounded positively dreamy to me, partially because it would undo some of the indoctrination that we inadvertently and inevitably receive just growing up in western society.
It’s great we all have choices on which schools excite us! We can’t all attend CSW, after all.
and now I’ll stop because we are getting off topic of general late apps, but since some of those tend to be the progressive schools, I hope this conversation proves relevant.
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What makes you think that? The academic hours were reduced by close to 50% in the first 3 mods!
Since it’s not what the OP asked, I think the time to debate CSW is over unless someone wants to start a new thread.
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