Anyone live near Phoenix, Arizona?

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EvilWalks
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20 Aug 2005, 11:43 am

If so, have you heard of a school called Howard S. Gray?

if so, do you know anything about it? What are the pros and cons?


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20 Aug 2005, 12:28 pm

Nope, don't live in AZ and never heard of the school.

Did look it up on-line though. It's student: teacher ratio is pretty high for a that type of school...8:1 rather than 12:1 is normal for around here. I don't like how they tried to say its 6:1 by including the aides...that's really close to lying. Course, 12:1 is much better than public schools which might run 25:1 or even 30:1.

They seems to try to be all things for all people. I perfer a more speciailized approach...the child with an eating disorder may need a completely different approach than the child with...whatever.

They seem to use the fact that school districts send children there as a selling point. I'm sorry but I believe my district uses cost and ease to the district as measurement, not how good the school actually is.

I haven't researched it and would be interested in graduation rates, rates of children re-mainstreamed, standard test scores ect.

Of course, none of this is as good as talking to someone who actually goes there. Hope you find someone who does.