- Continued concentration in demand for private schools as families consolidate their interest in the most competitive schools and some less competitive schools suffer.
- Calhoun and Metropolitan Montessori are in their second year after a merger.
- Packer‘s ex-baseball coach accused of molesting 7 Packer students. This is just a few weeks after a Saint Ann‘s math teacher was accused of catfishing Brooklyn private school students. These crimes are sickening and enraging. Our sympathies go out to everyone hurt. Please do everything you can to regularly talk to your children about body safety, ownership and control, that they can always talk to you and not fear repercussions, that they have the power to decide what feels right, to leave and say no.
- Ethical Culture Fieldston offers everyone an optional day off to recover from the election.
- In positive news, we’re noticing the spread of Science Research programs in NYC private schools. These offer students a chance to do original science research, in many cases working with professional scientists, and compete in global science research competitions. Students have an opportunity to conduct original research in high school, something that many other kids have to wait until college to start.