Schools in Athens, District of Attica, Greece. (1)

If you have children, small or otherwise...
...that would be private schools.

Exclusively.
All hogwash and balderdash to the contrary is just that...
Why? Because today's excellent, well-honed, organised local school is tomorrow's shooting back alley. Why? Because that superb and inspired teacher moved to another location; because teachers' pay at 20 years experience level is EURO: 1.327,0 /month, because there is little motivation, no recognition of effort expended, and even less on-going education...
so most will moonlight private lessons, go on sick leave, strike, /all or some of the above... and then some.

Presently I am checking out schools -- yet again. First time it was for my elder in Paris, France. There's really nothing to check out there; "public" (grammar) schools there are good to very-good unless otherwise indicated -- in which case they are excellent to outstanding. You may not like the system, but the academic and scholastic levels are beyond reproach.
This is not (no longer, I've been told) the case in Athens, capital of Greece.

Friends have checked this out before me. I am now checking it out. Greek, English schools, écoles Francaises... (I don't know nor understand German-except for German music 65 years old at its youngest)


There many private schools in and at the outskirts of Athens, many sporting phenomenal facilities and impressive buildings and, not least, very good credentials -- academic and otherwise. English taught as a foreign language in Greece is consistently outstanding. Greek taught as a foreign or mother tongue is less consistent in quality.

I propose to protray my impressions of schools I visit and add a comment on school personality / image. A display of uniquely differentiating factor for each institution, as it were.
At the onstart, all the schools look good -- in fact, the impressions range from good to excellent -- were it for their educational promise or their facilities (Greek schools) or both (Athens College, for example).

So, I propose to make


Oh yes, before we get to the core let's cut to the chase: EURO 12.000 / year for primary school is in the ballpark. Plus busing and similar superfluous luxuries such as food. Total should exceed 14k, yes, four-teen thousand Euro i.e. 18 thousand USD per year. For a full 12 year programme to graduation, parents are looking at euro: 150k in constant terms. Yes, that's before college. You can buy a small flat in a rotten area for that kind of money. Or you might just pack your bags and move elsewhere -- France say. But we're not there, yet.

Starting with the schools, the order only relates to random how thoughts in my mind manufest themselves -- or the proximity of my visit/ research on that particular schools. Nothing scholastic.

Athens College, aka the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation and its redoubtable alumni association.