Two posts in one week!?! I know, it’s unheard of, but I couldn’t contain myself. I just read this article at JPost.com and followed it up with this news release from the Hashemite Kingdom. Jordan’s King Abdullah is opening a prep school in Jordan that is “utterly progressive, utterly idealistic, and utterly optimistic.”
Part of the concept behind the school, according to Azar, is to offer families – who otherwise might send their gifted students to the West in order to give them the finest education possible – the option to send them to a top-notch boarding school in an “Arab framework.”
“The King’s Academy offers the best an American prep school education [has to offer] in a Middle Eastern context, with Arab culture, language, tradition and history,” she said.
The school is modeled on Deerfield Academy, a rigorous New England prep school that King Abdullah himself attended as a teenager. There are certainly some questions to be raised about the good sense of modeling a school after anything American
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