Address: 4525 Beechnut St, Houston, TX 77096, USA
“I just ran across this post and was so surprised that I told a dozen BYDS parents about it, all of whom were shocked by the content of the post. I would like to submit very respectfully that Ms. Kumar's experience is totally different from the BYDS the rest of us know. Two of my children are already students at Beth Yeshurun Day School, and my littlest one is about to start in CDO. It actually surprised me when I came to BYDS just how many not-Jewish, intermarried, and other couples there were for a school with such a strong Hebrew curriculum! (You'd have to really like the school both socially and academically in order to have your kids educated in Hebrew if you didn't have a strong personal reason to want your kids educated in Hebrew, right?) Additionally there are Jewish people all along the spectrum of observance from totally unobservant to quite observant indeed. Every time I've had a concern about social or academic issues, the administration has taken it very seriously. They have arranged in-person and telephone meetings with me, brought in my children's teachers as appropriate, and arranged repeated visits to classrooms by various experts like the curriculum director, the [secular] learning specialist, or the Judaic learning specialist. The school is large and robust enough to have a lot of after-school activities and options for teacher style, but the classes are so small that my children's teachers know my kids nearly as well as I do. And my kids' educations - both academic and emotional - are tailored accordingly. When my oldest child was in Pre-K, my husband and I toured other schools extensively before making our choice to stay for elementary. And our little cousins go to various top schools around the city, too. What we've found is that BYDS really holds its own academically with the other top schools in the city. What's more, BYDS can go further than any other school in helping the two of us reinforce values we teach at home. It should go without saying - but I guess it doesn't - that not a single Jewish, half-Jewish, or not-Jewish family I know teaches racism at home. Quite the contrary: Judaism is central to the mission and education at the school, Judaism has a long tradition of leadership toward equality for all people, and Jewish people have a long tradition of service to the civil rights movement! No school is perfect, and no school is right for every family, to be sure. Having said that, and I apologize for bragging but feel I must here, my older children are both outstanding readers who read far above grade level! Their teachers have always encouraged and promoted my children's passion for reading without pushing them before they were developmentally ready. And among the parent body, parent-friends with experience as educators are constantly raving to me about this or that aspect of the school's curriculum. I'm deeply sorry for Ms. Kumar's bad feelings, but they're so far removed from my experience and that of my peers that it's hard even to imagine that this is an entirely fact-based set of criticisms. ”
Address: 4522 Beechnut St, Houston, TX 77096, USA
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