Bolles School (high crime, neighborhood, magnet school)

[apvbguy]

Originally Posted by kwilli

rtt I am not picking on you personally but I do, for some reason, feel that your anger is more of sour grapes than your concern for the poor downtrodden children who are forced to go to Bolles.

My child has not had the obviously wonderful opportunity to attend our socialist training grounds also known as public schools. I guess if he did he would learn that everything that happens to you is not your fault but that of someone else! “Don’t worry son you are never in any way responsible for your actions!”

I would hope if my child were having problems at Bolles he would face them. “While sliding down the sliding board of life you pick up a lot of splinters.” You can face it or run away! We all learn eventually in life that no matter where you go there you are.

I am a working person and by no means wealthy but I have chosen to make the sacrifices necessary to keep my child in private school from kindergarten to high school with no remorse. There may be some of those wealthy kids behind every bush trying to ruin some other students life but I seldom have to worry about gunfire robbery and rape.

The administration and parents association at Bolles from what I have seen are quite co operative and helpful. Sure there have been some kids asked to leave since we have been there but mainly because they have refused to follow the rules or maintain their grades.

I politically correct society I can see the point of some parents being upset that their child is called out in front of all the other team members by a coach when they have a failing grade or didn’t do their assignment. In the long run this is for the benefit of the child. I’m in my fifties so when I went to school they posted everyone’s grade for all to see. Peer pressure can also be good! I also think the honor court does a good job, speaking of peer pressure, to keep Bolles kids a cut above. My seventh grade teacher always said “What I am to become I am now becoming!”]

To cut through the chase I just want other people to look at the facts about Bolles and not be discouraged from trying to get their kid admitted based on one or two people who have a problem are afraid say what it was for fear of being identified. I don’t think Bolles has a blog watch, ruin your family, covert team in place.

spot on!
I detected the bitterness, and like I kept saying that if you don't buy into what Bolles is selling, it probably isn't a good place your child.
The world needs leaders and it needs it's workers, guess where the leaders are coming from?

[rtt]

Kwilli, like I said, the happiest Bolles parents are also the most clueless. No sour grapes here. My daughter thrived there but the culture was seeping under our front door and I wouldn't have it. As I PM'd APVBGUY, we signed on for "A Separate Peace" but instead got "The Dukes of Hazzard". APVBGUY, get back to us after you've tried it for a year or two, OK?

[apvbguy]

Originally Posted by rtt

Kwilli, like I said, the happiest Bolles parents are also the most clueless. No sour grapes here. My daughter thrived there but the culture was filtering under our front door and I wouldn't have it. APVGUY, try it and get back to us after a couple of years, OK?

so the problem was at home, not the school.

you weren't going to accept them training your daughter in ways you don't grasp

[rtt]

What I won't accept, PVBGUY, is a mentality of unearned privilege of the very few ( I'm raising my kid to believe in merit) and an unseemly emphasis on material consumption. That's the tip of the iceberg. The incidents at Bartram last year where police should have been called and weren't are just the icing on the cake. (and no, I won't elaborate because the children involved need their anonymity)

[apvbguy]

Originally Posted by rtt

What I won't accept, PVBGUY, is a mentality of unearned privilege of the very few ( I'm raising my kid to believe in merit) and an unseemly emphasis on material consumption. That's the tip of the iceberg. The incidents at Bartram last year where police should have been called and weren't are just the icing on the cake. (and no, I won't elaborate because the children involved need their anonymity)

I don't care to engage you in a political or philisophical battle, but I have to say this, in life there will always be a bigger boat and rank does have it's privileges. So you can either run from it, like you've chosen to do or you allow your child to learn how to adapt to all different types of people, the people he encounters there will be more like the people he'll need to cope with as an adult.

People cheer the diversity that public schools offer but are appalled when confronted with a different kind of diversity found in schools like Bolles

I believe that your child will be more prepared for the jungle of the business world and life in general learning how to deal with self centered narcissitic people while in school rather than learning how to avoid drug dealers, gang bangers, and other various low life slacker types he'll encounter in many public schools and that includes many of the staff

[rtt]

Like I said, PVBguy, try it and see what you think. I"m just putting it out there what our experience was. People have a right to know both sides, not just Kwilli's cheerleading.

[kwilli]

Ah! There we have it, "unearned privilege" and "emphasis on material consumption", socialism has once again reared it's ugly head. Merit, is that what you have when you think that you deserve a free ride in life and that those who have taken a chance and been a success are evil. This ain't Sherwood Forest and I belive Robinhood has left the building! Obviously the Bolles financial aid package fell through!

rtt If I had knowledge of an incident, my child involved or not, that that was illegal I certainly would feel an obligaton to notify the police myself. The school does not have the only 911 enabled phone!

"The best thing to do is to do it right, the nextbest thing is to do it wrong and worst thing to do is nothing". Don't forget you are trying to teach you child "merit"

Kwilli, no flames needed. Its not my place to call the police, its the school's when that's where it happenned. Again, Bolles shuffling things under the rug. No financial package loss here, much to your disappointment. You've obviously bought into the Bolles mentality and fit in nicely. Enjoy!

rtt, If you had knowledge of a crime and did not report it "you shuffled it under the rug" just as well! Maybe you could have snatched another victim from the jaws of the privileged.

[rtt]

K, do you know what the pushback would be on my daughter if I did that? You have no idea, obviously, how things work there. I've put my opinions out on this forum as specifically as I could. If you don't like what I have to say that's fine with me. Calling me a Socialist, on the other hand, isn't. Please knock it off.

[Yac]

Everybody calm down, please. Talk about the topic, not each other.
Yac.

[seteiwane]

Bolles isn't a terrible school, but the tuition levels are ungodly. There are places to get a much better education for no tuition. Look at Stanton or Paxon (public magnet schools). Beign rated #3 and #17 in the nation (#1 and #3) in the state sounds pretty good, don't you think (especially when you don't have to pay to go there)?