![]() Many other independent (meaning non-parochial private) schools - including Parker - have also opened in or expanded in Chicago over the past five years or so, hoping to attract the Matts of the city.Īll those new students show up in the numbers. She moved there, rather than San Francisco, where she really wanted to live, because of its excellent public high schools.īut for those who can’t move to California, this fall the British School of Chicago opens a campus in the South Loop. Now Julie lives in San Mateo, California. ![]() Six months after Matt started classes, Julie “could tell a big difference in the level of education, basically due to the fact that they had more resources at the British School.” “And after seeing the British School, we were over the moon to get a place - aside from it was going to cost a fortune.” “The only place we got in was the British School,” Julie said. It cost $25,000 a year, significantly more than most Catholic schools, but she felt it was worth it. Julie’s first choice was Immaculate Conception, a Catholic school, but Matt didn’t get in, so he went to the British School, her second choice. So she decided to apply to private schools. Her first son attended the neighborhood school, Lincoln Elementary, which she considered relatively good, even though there were 30-34 kids in each class.īut when it came time for Julie to enroll her second son, Matt (not his real name), it looked like the family would be cut out of the catchment area for Lincoln because of overcrowding and Matt would be forced into a lower-performing school. moved from Britain to her husband’s hometown of Chicago, she never planned to send her kids to private school. When not working, Max can be found writing, playing basketball, reading old books, and watching old movies.The British School’s new campus in the South Loop If we ever find physics dry or math arcane, it is because we understand them too narrowly, because we have cut them off from the larger whole of which they are part. And this, in turn, means discovering their interconnectedness with the whole development of human thought - history, philosophy, art, religion, and literature. This entails, among other things, coming to see these fields not as bodies of fixed and timeless knowledge, but as historically dynamic projects, in an ongoing process of development. The aim is not just to learn the results of math and physics, but also to learn to do math and physics, to understand and participate in them as modes of inquiry. Max seeks to bring students into a personal, first-hand relationship with math and physics, to lead them to engage in the mode of thought that underlies these subjects. He received his bachelor’s degree in the history of education from Brown University. An avid student of pedagogy, he has spent hundreds of hours observing and writing about schools in New York, Rhode Island, and China. Max has taught math and physics in a wide range of schools, including John Jay College and Democracy Prep Charter School in Manhattan, and Saint Ann's in Brooklyn. Max Bean teaches physics, geometry and statistics to middle and high school students at GEMS World Academy Chicago.
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