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  • how is the parent interview at Grace Church? Who is it with?

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    11.07.09, 09:14 AM [ Flag ]
    • DOA - She is a lttle odd

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      11.07.09, 09:26 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • doa - margery. ours was very typical stuff. what is dc like? what kind of school are you looking for. nothing more probing or specific. then she pitched the school to us (for what seemed like the majority of the interview). I would say it was one of our worst interviews. we felt like we didn't connect with her about anything substantive. but maybe she wasn't interested in us.

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      11.07.09, 09:51 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • np--Asking what kind of school you are looking for can be answered in very specific ways. Perhaps your answer was vague. Grace is a religious school that focuses on the whole child. Kids being nice is as important as kids learning to read. It is a traditional school, with the belief that kids learn specific sets of knowledge. There's a video on the website in which the head of school talks about the school's philosophy.

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        11.07.09, 10:47 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • ^^^ Grace has around 50% male teachers--another good point to touch on if that is important to you. Also, there are school exchanges with schools in China, India and Japan. Do your homework before you visit a school and interviews can have a lot of interaction.

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          11.07.09, 11:09 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • or: believe me she told us all about this (and we had just heard it all on the tour and seen a presentation from the head). We knew loads about this school but still thought the interview was blah. We have had other good interviews at schools we liked less. The chemistry was not there.

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            11.07.09, 11:14 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • We are parents there and I don't think of Grace as a religious school-- there is a weekly non-denominational chapel, but that is it. Lots of diversity of religion, and the school is no longer associated with the church.

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            11.08.09, 03:25 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • Have you attended the school's Christmas pageant?

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              11.09.09, 03:20 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
              • do you mean the Church pageant or what the 8th grade does? I have been to latter. Grace is quite clear saying they are non-denominational.

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                11.09.09, 03:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                • Non-denominational does not mean non-religious. It means not adhering to any particular Christian denomination. And, yes, I'm talking about the school pageant where the 8th graders re-inact the nativity. I find the school mildly religious, (and, as an atheist, I can handle it for my dc), but it is misleading to say it is not religious.

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                  11.09.09, 07:58 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • ITA.... Margery was pleasant enough but also didn't feel we connected at all. She didn't really try to sell the school on us so maybe she *really* wasn't interested in us. Was our second worst interview -nothing can match the duo Trinity interview for sheer social awkwardness!

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        11.07.09, 10:49 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • how long was your interview with Margery?

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      11.07.09, 12:37 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Tangent: what do people think of Head of School? Is he new-ish?

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      11.07.09, 12:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • he's not new.

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        11.07.09, 02:20 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • definitely not new... think he said he

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        11.09.09, 08:36 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • whooops... think he said he'd been there something like 15 years. DH and I quite enjoyed him and thought he had a clear vision for the school. Also liked the fact that he stayed connected with the kids by teaching a science class in addition to being HoS. However, he has a type of quirky personality that I could see a lot of people disliking. We personally thought he was one of Grace's best assets.

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          11.09.09, 09:09 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • np - interesting. i felt the same way, that she wasn't interested in us, and/or that we didn't do well. i didn't feel like we had much opportunity to talk about how/why we liked Grace. I guess we were nervous but feel like we bombed.

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      11.07.09, 02:28 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • thanks all! did she give you feedback on playdate?1

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      11.07.09, 02:29 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • our playdate is after interview so I can't comment, but I did see the playdate leaders come down with a group of kids and their only comment to the waiting moms was "we had fun!"

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        11.07.09, 06:01 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • In addition to the questions mentioned above we were also asked how we disciplined our DC. Also, I wonder if she has less "say" than other DOAs because she doesn't do anything with the playdates (it seems as if it's just the teachers in there). At all our other schools so far, the DOA has been around and in the class for the playdates.

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      11.07.09, 06:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • The DOA there was awful, we didn't think she even knew that much about the school and she wasn't interested at all in us. At one point she told us she couldn't answer a question and to ask the Head! I can't imagine how she got that job.

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      11.08.09, 02:00 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • You also meet with the Headmaster, but in a group with other parents. The parent interview with DOA is one on one.

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      11.08.09, 02:30 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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