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I attend this school and will work on the article Themagicmanfromtrent (talk) 11:47, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Memorable Quotes

Khaled Kteily, I've removed your prodigy insert, and your memorable quotes from teachers. Unsuitable for wikipedia. Themagicmanfromtrent (talk) 09:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Community? If it's a "private school" why does it go under the auspices of a "Community School," because i'm sure most of Beirut's citizens could not afford the $10,000 USD price tag for tuition, anyway i'm sure the name has a greater historical context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.179.214.37 (talk) 02:17, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm an alumni from back before the war. Things have changed since then. The school's original purpose was to provide an American style education to children from the American expatriate community. The very first students were children of missionaries and children of professors at AUB. Children of American businessmen and children whose parents worked at the nearby American Embassy (the one that got bombed) also attended. These people formed a community in that they were mostly of American culture, and wanted their kids educated in an American style school The school was accredited by an American Accreditation Board, granted an American diploma and was more like an American public school in a good middle class neighborhood than a typical private school. The price reflects this. If you have ever compared private school tuitions, they are typically $30,000-40,000, much higher than colleges. $10,000 is a bargain. It is simply a good quality, middle class school. They don't have an expensive chapel, gothic dining hall, or even a stadium. For football and computers, we walked over to nearby AUB. Now that computers are personal, they probably don't need to use the mainframe, but last I checked, they still had no stadium, baseball diamond, etc.

But, even though the school had a predominately American culture, quite a few students were not American. Quite a few kids from Lebanon come to the US for college and having an American style high school education works better than having a British or French education. Those were the other international programs in town. Now, they do the IB, so that's less of an issue. The school reopened, but now that there aren't so many Americans living in Beirut, the school has modified its mission to accomadate the students that do attend.

Sorry that was long, and some of it may be more suited for the main article. Karen, class of '76, KGMallory (talk) 01:27, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Couldn't have put it better myself. Themagicmanfromtrent (talk) 22:12, 21 April 2009 (UTC) (Class of '09)[reply]