Neurodivergent kids and parents, LOOK AWAY FROM THIS SCHOOL! nothing but worksheets, they treat the current 7th graders like lab rats instead of trying to fully fix their AWFUL school system over the summer, and the teachers are stuck up people who can and WILL push their politics on impressionable children. When my child was in 4th grade, she was diagnosed with ADHD. The teachers gave zero accommodations which would be fine for a public school, but they overcharged me and undereducated my kids. Forcing kids to do the pledge after they had cited their discomfort with it is not only disrespectful, but its a disturbing breach of the childs rights. When my child argued back, she was told by many a teacher, "you lost your rights the second you walked through that door." That is appalling, and afterwards her backpack was SEARCHED by teachers. they looked through her private journal and pushed her about it until they forced her to apologize to the teacher and didnt make the teacher apologize. She had loads of other issues such as overreactive teachers (giving IN SCHOOL SUSPENSION for playing mobile games in class) teachers who will NOT acknowledge or accommodate childrens needs (forcing them to do terrible math work that just tanked my childs grades and instead of telling her about her grades, they told her to work harder instead of them doing their jobs and working harder to either help her understand or give her something she understands) they also offered almost no choice in classes and when there was infighting the teachers didnt get themselves involved, saying they should figure it out on their own. My child got severe depression, trying to commit suicide and the school did nothing to prevent this other than a lousy talk that didnt help the kids. DO NOT WASTE MONEY ON THIS SCHOOL UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR CHILD TO BE DEPRESSED!!! read more

This school is AMAZING! I love it. The Staff are so nice and helpful to students, teachers, and parents.

This is a very money-hungry administration and they do not treat people appropriately. During the corona virus pandemic they wanted to continue to charge all students full tuition ($1423 per month per child or $2846 total for our two kids). Our children are ages 2 and 4, and The New School essentially serves as an educational day care for our family. They would not offer a refund for the period of time that school was out so I got a lawyer involved. I have no problem paying for services as long as services are being received. They ultimately waived the payments in question, but I just found out today that they also cancelled our children's enrollment for the 2020-2021 year without our permission. We never asked to have the children removed from the school. The head of school (Nancy) will not even communicate with us directly anymore. When we reach out with questions about enrollment she simply says that only our lawyers can communicate going forward. We have several friends whose children are there currently, and they are having similar issues. One couple in particular wanted to withdrawal from the school electively due to safety concerns surrounding the pandemic. Even though school has not officially started for the academic year, they were told that if they pulls out their children that they will still owe full contract price for the academic year (roughly $15,250 per child) because it is after July 1st. Hopefully, you are starting to get the picture. We enjoyed the school itself and the teachers. I had no problems with the education component of the program. However, the money-driven nature of the school poisons the environment. It is not worth the ultra-high premium that they require for tuition. Maybe the K-12 experience is difference, but the contracts they have for the early childhood education is absurd. They are more interested in taking your money than doing what is right. I have since gladly taken my children elsewhere. read more