<p>Very good post Thacher parent. I completely agree with everything you say. Parents need to do their own probing and ask those hard questions of the schools. Don’t believe the glossy brochures, but don’t believe that the newspapers have the full story either. There are lots of other schools (and I’m not going to name them) who have had incidents that they were lucky enough to keep out of the press. My point was that this mean spirited culture of today seems to exist everywhere- and it’s up to us to teach our children better and insist that the schools do too.</p>