Share Brown School Experiences???

[deemqueen.livejournal.com]

I checked the "schools" tag for info on schools close to Davis Square. There weren't any postings I could see. I know this isn't exactly a topic for hipsters but ... would anyone be willing to share their experiences (either positive or not) at the Brown School? We'd really love to stick around Davis AND send our child to Somerville public schools.

We had an appointment with the principal today ... and frankly didn't
get too much of a sense of what the school is all about. Maybe we
didn't ask the right questions. What else could we be doing to make
an informed decision?

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Share Brown School experiences

[sommom.livejournal.com]

Somerville schools hold open house week in January, ending with Kindergarten registration on Saturday. You should definitely visit the Brown School and any other school you're considering during that week. Also, check out the city's school dept website; under Schools, you can find websites for each school. The Brown School has its newsletters online, as well as pictures of recent PTA/extracurricular events and clubs, and most teachers have their own websites under Classrooms.

Our family has been very happy with the Brown School and we plan to send our youngest there, too. We've also been at 2 other schools, and it's the smallest and most intimate one. It has a real sense of community, and the teachers are great. But I know people who've also been very happy at other schools in Somerville; it depends what you're looking for in a school and what your child needs.

I agree with the comments about MCAS having an impact across the board in Somerville. It's important for parents to be active in the schools and not just in their individual school, but to take an active role in the whole city's school system, to let the superintendent and maybe even our new mayor know what we want our schools to be and to aim for. MCAS wasn't meant to be the end all and be all of education reform, and we need to remind the adminstration of this. The teachers already know.