Does the Community School Model Speak to You?
Talk about the issue reigns supreme as the start of school approaches.
It's a known fact that many parents with the means to look elsewhere are skeptical about the neighborhood public schools in their areas of Philadelphia.
But a Philly.com article from Wednesday profiles a family that chose to send its son to E.M. Stanton School in Center City, even though he could have gone to the more prestigious Independence Charter School.
We probed this issue in our "School Decisions" series from last year. Choosing a school is an anxiety-ridden and often paralyzing process for city parents, who sometimes weigh moving to the suburbs because of the School District of Philadelphia's relatively poor reputation.
Do you share similar anxieties? How do you feel about the family sending its son to Stanton—are they doing the right thing?
Let us know in the comments and vote in our poll.
Roxborough Area Man
11:01 am on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Community schools are great - if you live in a middle- or upper-class neighborhood. For the working poor, the ones who care about their kids, forcing them to send their child to a community school is forcing them to accept sub-par, perhaps dangerous education. I'd love a Roxborough-funded and directed public school, especially a high school...but if I were some kid from a bad part of town I'd be placed at a nearly impossible to overcome disadvantage if I attended a community school.
Vicki
9:36 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Are you aware of Dobson School? It's a really really good school and worth a look. You have to visit, go see, talk to principal and staff.
Roxborough Area Man
11:03 pm on Thursday, August 9, 2012
Yes, neighbors have told us good (and bad) things about Dobson. Cook-Wissahickon was also recommended. I see even a good Philadelphia public school as a risk I'd prefer not to take if I don't need to. Perhaps that makes me a sellout of my own personal belief that one of the only true equalizing forces in America are high-quality public schools...but Philadelphia, by any measure, does not have them.
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