@Vert, @Grey_Devil, @aikimo, There’s a great local private school called the Newark Center for Creative Learning. Instead of report cards or grades, thrice a year parents receive a detailed report from the teaching staff (the only non-teaching staff position is the school secretary) that explains their child’s state of social, academic, emotional and physical development as that relates to their peer group and the educational process. Everything is individualized for the student.
In Delaware, as part of the New Jim Crow economic resegregation, we have Magnet, Charter, and private schools that require a high middle school grade point average and, in some cases, a high score on an preliminary exam. All of these schools, without exception, will accept kids from NCCL - despite their complete lack of any grade point average or other standardized metrics - because those kids consistently match or exceed their high academic performance requirements.
The single most important key to this success is small class sizes. It would not be possible to use the old-school, individualized teaching methods that NCCL employs if there were more than a dozen kids per teacher.
