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HenryAlan, or anyone else, do you have an opinion of the Edward W. Brooke Charter School.
It seems interesting, I'm wondering why the hours are till 4:30, my kids would hate to be in school so late. I know it is hard to get a seat there.
What made Irving a dangerous place back then? It's right in my neighborhood, so I'd really like to know
I'd also like to ask, if the previous posters don't like the school system, what do they do for their kids?
I grew up in West Roxbury. I was in school in the 80's to mid 90's. If your parents didnt like the school system, then you go to private school.
I went to a private Catholic school in Chestnut Hill. My brother went to Saint Theresa's in West Roxbury. Thats what parents do when they can afford not to send their kids to Boston schools.
[quote=HenryAlan;24555090]How familiar are you with the schools? Do you have children in them right now? Does the majority of your peer group have children in them? I know these schools very well,
Certainly not as familiar as you are. My children have graduated. I have no doubt that you know the schools very well. I also have no doubt that you and I share the kind of personality necessary to get your kids through the Boston public schools in one educational piece, and maybe even a pretty good educational piece.
Not everybody has the time, the energy, the smarts, the manipulative ability, the tenacity, the follow-through, the assertiveness, the "I won't take-no-for-an-answer" ability to stand uo to bureaucratic nonsense, the intuitive sense that something is going wrong before it does, etc., I could go on and on.
Yesterday I landed by mistake on a local cable channel where parents where speaking to a couple of City Councillors about their experience as BPS parents. I watched for about an hour. I was mesmerized; and so disheartened that the same old same old was still being recited to new councilors and twenty years from now their children would likely be sitting in those same seats with the same sheets in hand.
I don't disbelieve you. You're just damn lucky. And you know how to work the system.
So did I. But it took everything I had.
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