<p>For those of you who don't lurk elsewhere (I don't blame you - it's a jungle out there), there seems to be a thread going (I only invited the OP to look over in this forum) where Boston area day schools (particularly B B&N) are getting a less than warm reception...</p>
<p>Watch where you step!</p>
<p>wow... the prep admission board seems to be the nicest!</p>
<p>I've been saying it since I came here. The prep school admissions is nice, because we've got idealistic seventh and eighth graders, busy prep school students, and kind, caring adults who act as good moderators and give sound advice. The rest of CC can be pretty nasty.</p>
<p>I have to say I think you are over reacting a bit here. I don't see anyone flaming boarding schools. I think They are standing up for public schools. Not unlike parents of boarding school children defending their choice to send their kids to boarding school.</p>
<p>One poster even says each situation is different for each child. Nothing horrible there.</p>
<p>JB1,</p>
<p>Actually I said they were flaming "prep" schools (not all prep schools are boarding schools) particularly B B&N (I think someone derisively called it Brooks Barnes & Noble - later corrected). And later (after my first post), defended B B&N saying each situation is different for each child. </p>
<p>I find it interesting that the folks in that thread found so many good things to say about the public education in the Boston area, when I see so many Boston area kids (even at my D's school) leaving that environment to go to day prep and boarding schools. </p>
<p>Of course, where I live, in my end of the county there are 3 public high schools with about 6000 kids between them and 3 private high schools (one catholic, one christian, and one secular) that have a combined population of about 2400 kids and have construction plans underway for another 800 kids between them. And the 3 public high schools are #1, 2 and 5 (out of about a dozen) in the district in standardized testing, so it goes to say that there is still room for choice (even at one's own expense).</p>
<p>I opened this thread to point out the tone of discussion differences between the 2 areas in CC. Yes, there are a lot of people here who dislike the public schools, but I noticed that many of these families are only applying to top tier boarding schools as their publics are adequate safeties. Both sides seem to respect each other's positions. And even those of us (myself included) who are dissatisfied with their public school situations don't categorically slam public schools much like some of the posters on that thread treated the private schools.</p>
<p>Perhaps I'm overreacting, but when you look at a lot of the "general interest" threads (not specific to schooling) outside of the Boarding School area, you find a lot of hostile posts. We've had a couple of outbreaks here and there, but by and large this is a more supportive arena no matter what your choice of school is.</p>
<p>Yes, I misspoke boarding school vs prep school. Please substitute prep school for boarding school in my above post. </p>
<p>I have not spent any time outside of this forum (I have at least lurked here for a while and it is very friendly) so am unaware of hostile posts in other forums on this site. </p>
<p>Perhaps the title of the post was a little misleading.</p>
<p>Clearly the other forum has several public school advocates. If the OP had posted here she would have received a different response. I can understand why you directed her here.</p>
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<p>Guilty of a bit of overselling.</p>