Experience w/ Ivy League School in Smithtown (New York, York: middle school, camp)
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Another problem people are having with your post is that your description of it is so generalized and idyllic that it looks like it was ripped right of the school's mission statement or something. Do you have any specific examples as to this "hand-on approach" that enables "social, emotional, and intellectual development" and also "cultivates an intrinsic flow of learning" that makes it so different from every other school? As said before, your "signs of spring" example is really not a miracle for a 3 year old.
Another problem people are having with your post is that your description of it is so generalized and idyllic that it looks like it was ripped right of the school's mission statement or something. Do you have any specific examples as to this "hand-on approach" that enables "social, emotional, and intellectual development" and also "cultivates an intrinsic flow of learning" that makes it so different from every other school? As said before, your "signs of spring" example is really not a miracle for a 3 year old.
That's exactly it! It looks like it was written by an ad agency not a regular person giving a review. No one talks that way in real life. Also why, out of nowhere, choose to post this on this forum. If you look at other "reviews" of this school online they all look the same. They look like they are written by shills.
At Ivy League, our children have learned faster and with a rekindled love of learning. My wife and I love the close attention paid to individual needs, strengths and areas of challenge. This school fosters a proactive approach to building life-long learners by promoting encouragement rather than criticism, lauding children for their gifts while respectfully guiding them through rough areas - until they succeed!
It reeks of the same schmutz as this thread. Perhaps this school, in the face of declining enrollment, embarked on an online advertising scheme by posting these vapid reviews wherever they could. Nice try, but we gotcha this time.
At Ivy League, our children have learned faster and with a rekindled love of learning. My wife and I love the close attention paid to individual needs, strengths and areas of challenge. This school fosters a proactive approach to building life-long learners by promoting encouragement rather than criticism, lauding children for their gifts while respectfully guiding them through rough areas - until they succeed!
It reeks of the same schmutz as this thread. Perhaps this school, in the face of declining enrollment, embarked on an online advertising scheme by posting these vapid reviews wherever they could. Nice try, but we gotcha this time.
There are numerous "reviews" of this school online that are all worded the same. Pathetic.
My take on it is if the school is so good then there is no need to spread the word on a forum like this. Your post did come across as unabashed advertising and with all this negative publicity following in this thread perhaps you've done more harm than good and turned off some prospective enrollees.
If the school is so good then the school's reputation would have been well known especially when as you pointed out in an earlier post that the school has been around for 50 years.
For example other excellent schools that come to mind that need no advertising are Friends Academy, Portledge, LuHi, Chaminade, Kellenberg. Granted those are not preschools but you get the idea....
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