The Ideal School?

Our Los Angeles mom, Sandra Tsing Loh, broadens her school search by looking at a private school.

In this clip from her performance piece, Mother on Fire, Sandra visits the heavenly Wonder Canyon School. At first, Sandra is very impressed. Then comes the sticker shock.

Comments

[Conni A. McDonnell]

I watched this comical clip from Sandra Tsing Loh with a predetermination that the California dreams for a perfect school would be poles apart from our East Coast prerequisites…However, Sandra’s witty monologue touched on so many familiar and parallel issues. Not long ago, while searching for a new middle school for my son, we recognized a familiar strong element of commodity in the Private School visitation, application and acceptance process. I truly wonder if children need glamorous buildings and alluring gardens. By placing emphasis on that ideal, picture perfect and unruffled learning environment, have we lost a glimpse of classical basic elements in educating young people? Will our children really grow into those benevolent, altruistic achievers…or will they seam together with the growing number of obstinate, self-seeking young twenty - somethings whose unrealistic expectations in the “real world” remain in a frothy state of skinny latte sipping limbo…I guess we’ll have to wait and see…