My son ever studied at GFS for his 7-8th grade, it is a very good school, a quack school, everyone is super nice to each other. Now my son went a boarding school because he just follows his sisters. But he loves GFS so much and really doesn't leave! School at black community, kind of wired, all black environment, suddenly a white school. It is safe with lots of security guards. GFS is a school with small grades size, school includes K-12, only 1K students in total, it is a Penn feeder school, every year about 15kids go to Penn. Of course lots of Penn faculty kids there. It is very interesting that during pandemic school's medical boards all are from Penn and everyone is GFS parent.
My son ever studied at GFS for his 7-8th grade, it is a very good school, a quack school, everyone is super nice to each other. Now my son went a boarding school because he just follows his sisters. But he loves GFS so much and really doesn't leave! School at black community, kind of wired, all black environment, suddenly a white school. It is safe with lots of security guards. GFS is a school with small grades size, school includes K-12, only 1K students in total, it is a Penn feeder school, every year about 15kids go to Penn. Of course lots of Penn faculty kids there. It is very interesting that during pandemic school's medical boards all are from Penn and everyone is GFS parent. joncc 发表于 2022-03-25 16:02
主要的 concern 有:她是single mother,来了以后会 stay at home不打算工作,不知道能不能fit in这两个学校?她英语非常好,在美国读书和工作过很多年,不需要担心语言和文化问题。不知道校园附近的治安情况如何,适合母女俩居住吗?她不想住得很远,最好能步行上学。从城市和学校的角度,有没有对华人不友好?
谢谢大家!
费城Germantown应该还是很安全的吧
这两个学校不清楚,但从外人的角度看,好像Germantown friends名声更大,而且美东更能体验美国传统文化,以后申藤校估计费城也比Houston更有地理优势,学校本身也更有历史优势
GOSH...你应该去GERMAN TOWN看看,我反正没敢下车,也不敢停….
哈哈,是吗,我怎么记得版上讨论费城买房子,都说Germantown不错呀
或者国际学生应该有boarding的选项吧,女儿住学校,妈妈在费城郊区找个地方住,周末开车接回来
谢谢!这种学校是不是很多都是外交官家庭?
Germantown 据说是 UPenn 的 feeder school,就是不知道周围环境如何,会不会排外
号召费城的同学说说 German town~~~ pre-K住校不可行吧?上厕所还要妈妈帮忙呢
听说外交官和外国高管子女很多
Thanks!
多谢多谢
算财务自由的家庭吧? -- 虽然我不知道为什么你会有这种疑问
有吗?那我就不知道了,我印象中awty是休斯顿大中产上私立的最爱,进去的门槛不是很高,城里面那几个私立要难进的多,当然规模也小一些。
Horace Mann 好象有车去城里接送。住城里不用走路和担心开。其它2个学校不知道。
垫着砖头跷脚趴着窗台往里看看,纯属瞎问,千万别介意,对不起对不起
Germantown 那一片安全吗?据说是40%上 UPenn。
问题是现在城里不太平。她们就母女俩,我也不敢打包票她们过来不会遇到麻烦。责任太大了。
没什么,我觉得你可能对 single mother 有偏见,以为她是二奶之类的?哈哈。 没有啦,她不是什么小三或者二奶,原生家庭基础好,外加她在美国的时候投资房产和股票赚了很多钱而已。孩子是她在美国工作的时候生的,前几年回国养娃,希望能学好中文,现在大了回来念书。
我瞎猜的,纽约和DC的 international school 都有很多外交官孩子。 其他学校不了解,她在休斯顿也就申请了这一个,如果最后上这个学校的话,她打算让孩子选 French track,以后去法国读大学。小资女对法国有点情怀吧?
终于等到了GFS的信息!请问如果去GFS,住在哪里又安全又方便呢?
学校是很好,但是据说neighborhood不好。请问如果去GFS,住在哪里又安全又方便呢?
Germantown Friends School 附近最近的好社区就是Bala Cynwyd,费城mainline第一个公立学区 Lower Merion的town都适合居住,但是Bala Cynwyd是治安最好的里面最近的,属于Montgomery County,schuylkill river 以西 & City Avenue 以北都是Lower Merion,这里离GFS大概要15-20分钟。 Germaintown本身是个black community,很少upper middle class定居在那里,大部分是租房的。
孩子在美国生的话 不一定非要上国际学校啊
I've never said 非要上国际学校啊!
very useful info. Thank you!
休斯敦还有其他更好的私校 不知道为啥要选Awty?
Bala还是有点远,而且那边经常堵车吧
GFS西边的mount airy,尤其是west mount airy是不错的地方,离GFS大概8分钟车程
GFS附近是比较乱(学校里面没问题),不太适合居住
不是我的孩子,我做不了主啊!哈哈~~~
Good to know! Thank you!