Yeah, these guys look like educators...............
Posted on 06/13/2012 11:26:43 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The Blue School is one big play date in desperate need of adult supervision.
Parents are yanking their kids out of the “progressive,” $32,000 per-year private school founded by the Blue Man Group — which has no books and no tests — because their kids are barely learning to read, The Post has learned.
One mother, who is yanking her son at the end of the school year, complained that the school is “unstructured.”
“It’s true,” she said when asked if her kid was struggling to read.
In all, she added, four of her son’s first-grade classmates are leaving the Financial District institution.
Another parent who dropped her first-grade son off yesterday said he’s not coming back next year — because he’s got nothing to do.
“When a 6-year-old says they’re bored, there’s a problem,” the mother said. “I think they bit off more than they can chew.”
Other moms have taken to a popular message board to vent.
“It’s all fun and games until you realize your second-grader can’t read,” a parent wrote on Urbanbaby.com.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
There’s “feeling good”.
There’s “learning”.
Sometimes the two overlap.
Sometimes they don’t.
When “feeling good” takes precedence over “learning,” “school” becomes a euphemism for “playground”.
These parents are paying $32K a year to send their kids to Chuck E Cheeze’s.
OK OK...
“Four year olds whose parents intend to homeschool them...”
You got it. Thirty-two thousand dollars for a conversation stopper at the next cocktail party.
THIS.
The kids should at least be able to bang out a decent rhythm on a PVC pipe.
Yeah, these guys look like educators...............
These parents are greatly overreacting. This type of school is teacheing a valuable lesson to these kids.
That a sucker is born every minute.
I read that line and stopped reading. Founded by the Blue Man Group? No books? What could possibly go wrong?
Just damn.
Bit of an acquired taste obviously, but Blue Man Group puts on a very entertaining live show. That said, why would anyone think they were qualified to run a school? For $32 grand a year! Maybe an after-school arts program, at most.
The parents must be morons! Sending a child to a $32k a year elementary school with no books, no testing or a proven track record, is pure insanity.
Liberals are stupid tools and the school sounds like a money laundering scheme.
Idiocracy may come true after all.
: )
Good parents check the curriculum, not base their child’s education on fads. They probably put less thought into the school than picking out a new car that costs as much money as the tuition.
Any parent that trusts STRANGERS to educate their kids is, arguably, abusing those kids.
Their is only ONE PERSON that has educated my kids, and that’s mwa (i.e., me). The results have spoken for themselves.
“Meanwhile, your average homeschooler can read at a third grade level by the time they’re 4.”
And 12th grade by age 8.
...$32,000 per-year private school founded by the Blue Man Group... no books and no tests... kids are barely learning to read... complained that the school is "unstructured."If they want to make this a success, they need to have Gallagher operate the cafeteria.
As far as I am concerned the only good secular private schools in NYC are
Coed: Trinity, Horace Mann, Riverdale, Poly Prep
Boys: Collegiate, Buckley, St. Bernard, Browning(for less smart boys)
Girls: Spence, Brearly, Nightingale-Bamford, Hewitt (for pretty but less smart girls).
Buckley is probably the most politically conservative of these, or was when I left 21 years ago. Kids there are taught to love America and Britain. Unfortunately it is Kindergarten to ninth grade only. I would also suggest Ramaz, although it is a Modern Orthodox Yeshiva.
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