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Posted by: charlsey on 3/23/1998@20:01hrs:
In Reply to: The Petrides School posted by: Ken on 3/23/1998@13:47hrs:
Well I don't know alot about the ongoing controversy regarding the Petrides school,
but I do know about my own personal experience with the school.
I was very interested in having my daughter be a part
of the new school, what with a mother like me
she needed all the help she could get, in becoming a budding intellectual...
We registered the way we were instructed to, and then we were given an appointment for the general exam.
It is the same exam that all students entering the public school system are subjected to.
Initially, the school was concepted to be for "gifted" students, but that changed quickly, as many parents felt
that was discriminatory.
Which is true..but...
After the appointment, we were instructed that all students were randomly selected according to zipcode
and whether they were male or female...The computer would spit out the list and either you got in or you didn't.
Well there are only 75 slots for each grade.
Split that over 10 or more zipcodes
and divide by two (male or female)
and you see that the chances of getting in are impossible and next to impossible.
If you are wondering what drew me to the school, it wasn't so much the academics, or the enrichment (although they are definite plus's)
it was the fact that my daughter could go to the same school from K-12 without interruption. I lkie that idea.
well needless to say, she didn't get in.
I didn't take it personally,
until
I started reading articles about the schools activities and goings on, and noticed that a acouple of the parents interviewed (at different times), had more than one child in the school.
That really made me think...
Somethin is screwy over there.
How could some people win the lottery twice (out of 75 slots divided by 10 and 2!!!)
Me thinks it's about who you know.
And that is my controversy with the Petrides School...BTW my daughter goes to P.S. 60 and loves it. I also think very highly of the school and the faculty. So they lived happily ever after. The end!