March 21, 2006

New York's first British school opens this September. Aimed at expat British parents in the US, BISNY will teach the British (English) National Curriculum to American youngsters whose parents want a better, private, education. Yahoo News, Financial Times.
posted by tracicle 18 years ago
  • NYC public schools offer kids the perfect opportunity to develop street smarts, and here you have a school trying to convince parents to deny their kids that opportunity. For shame!
  • So will these American students have to call their math classes "maths?" 'Cuz that's just wierd. (I kid, I kid!)
  • this will be welcome antidote to the slack discpline of American schools, where students are often allowed to have pudding regardless of whether or not they have eaten their meat.
  • *snort* Is Britainism the new Orientalism?
  • Suck it up, septics. We Brits rock like Yoda and you know it. *adjusts bowler hat / renames both cats 'Humphrey'*
  • This just in: dropouts from Brit school form British gangs, stage morris dancing battles in West Side Mr Riff-Smyth, leader of the gang 'The Spitfires': "Well, one left the International School at age 17, and really Mummy and Daddy were terribly upset. But now one hangs out with one's chaps dans la rue and has an absolutely spiffing time of it, playing all sorts of japes on our rival gang - those beastly fellows in "the Cods". Bernard, leader of 'The Cods': "One was awfully sick of lessons and just felt that one's soul felt far more free morris dancing and have a bust-up with those Spitfire fellows". Anthony, ex-member of the Spitfires: "I've just met a lovely young filly, name of Mary. I say - can I hear music playing?" Mary, sister of Bernard: "One so loves to be in North America. There's so much to see in North America. Everything is also quite reaonably priced in North America." NYPD spokesperson Officer Krupke said "I can't see this ending well".
  • Stop playing with your wand !
  • There are several in other parts of the US already. But it's not all one way.
  • ♪ A cap in your dome Is what you get for not asking! And a cap in your dome Is what you get for asking! ♫
  • Are they importing Marmite?
  • They need to import British school food. It just isn't a British education without jam roly-poly and other weird, stodgy puddings drowned in custard.
  • So...metric measurement? I can see all the poor kids walking to school and getting lost because they can't emasure miles...
  • Hey Pleggy...my girlfriend went to the American School of London!!!
  • It looks like a nice place, rocket88 - did she enjoy being there?
  • From the little she's mentioned of it, yes. She was there quite a while ago (~25 years?). I'll have to ask her more about it.
  • Hmmmm, septics, Kit? Perhaps you mean sKeptics? When I turn septic, my colour gets grey.
  • Quiddy, I love you madly.
  • Hmmmm, septics, Kit? Perhaps you mean sKeptics? With kit, you never know, GramMa. *snaps on rubber gloves*
  • Wot Pallas Athena says -- some food is an education in itself. *recoils with fear and loathing from memories of daily porridge and overcooked veg times two or three (eat 'em all or die the death, laddie!), greyed mutton cast adrift on a scum of its own fat, omnipresent and gelid rice puddings and tapioca dittos (to gag for!)* *faints fromn delayed trauma*
  • Ah, school lunch. Overcooked Tater Tots garnished with undercooked Tater Tots. Big wide slabs o' gummint cheese. Carrot and raisin salad. Shredded lettuce soaked in industrial-strength Italian dressing. Watery mashed potatoes. More Tater Tots.