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Carlbrook thread Part 2
irvbulldogs72:
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irvbulldogs72:
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I guess I'm too lazy to do my own homework, but due to the fact that at this point, based on what I've read, Carlbrook is more than just coincidentally identical to 80s era CEDU down to the terminology, the (albeit mostly less rigorous) schedule, the parental visits and correspondence policies, workshops, groups, slogans, the only difference is the inclusion of academics.
Seriously, I'm reading all of this, and going "holy crap." I know that there are similarities between all programs to some extent, but this stuff almost sounds like a CEDU clone school, such as Benchmark and Monarch. Is Carlbrook technically a CEDU clone? Does anyone know?
I'd very much like to know, Irv, did they ever tell you an origin story? Who started Carlbrook? Where the founder or group of founders got their inspiration?
I know that Brace works there, he was my old headmaster, but as far as I know, he *apparently* had no part in actually starting the school, did he? I thought he was simply the dean of students.
BTW, I congratulate you on your success. I went to 80s era RMA, got about a 1250 on my SATs, started college pretty soon after leaving RMA, graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in painting, and think about the program very differently than you. I feel that I managed to make it in spite of my experience at RMA, as opposed to because of it. There were a lot of things that I had to "unlearn".
In addition, like you, I was the baby of my peer group, and definitely one of the omega wolves of the school. I got sent back through the first workshop while I was in middle school for the same reason you were put on a "program". I was considered to be "flying under the radar" and "not growing."
We have some similarities, it seems, (except that you chose a major in college that was much more sensible than mine.) :P
nimdA:
Were any of these determinations to put people back in the program made objectively or were they the results of subjective thinking?
irvbulldogs72:
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