Laburnum Park

My child attended this school for 2 years from 1st to 2nd grade. The education is good; however, the leadership is bad. From the start, my family felt the school was just interested in our money. I understand that the school is a for profit organization, but it is also supposed to be Christian, with Christian values. Constantly asking us to give to their capital campaign and increasing tuition for no specific reason, does not make us feel very welcome other than for the purpose of taking our money. And we have the money to give because my husband and I are in professional fields. However, the administrators at this school are trying to treat this school like it is a college, and it is certainly not. I'm sorry, but I am not support your fund for building field house for tennis courts. How about we do better with the math curriculum? Second, the parents at the school are mostly snobs. I would say 75% of them come from wealth, and therefore expect you to wear name-brand outfits at pickup, but then don't pay attention to their kids when they are on the quad fighting or leaving their babies on the ground for all the germs to get them. You can feel the tension from the group staring at you when you aren't wearing that $500 jacket or boots. The families that go to Veritas do not conform to the Christian way even though they limit what their children listen to on the radio or watch on tv. Third, we only sent our daughter here but for the proximity to our house. Definitely not the Harvard of the South, so please don't send your child and pay that extra money for connections alone. While education is important, we think that it is important for our child to go to a school that cares about the child not just the money.