Stonybrook Academy/Karen

[otempora541]

A post on bsc_snark regarding inconsistancies in BSC/BSLS made me think

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[dsharpe113]

also in later books she spends half her time at the big house going to stoneybrook academy (riding a bus no less). Also, Hannie goes to Stoneybrook Academy and she lives across the street from the Thomas/Brewers

[otempora541]

That's what's making me think that SA is not quite in Stoneybrook...

[dsharpe113]

but the thomas brewer house is def in stoneybrook

[cassandraclue]

SDS seems to have a different, more rigorous focus than SA. i don't think SA vs SDS has really anything to do with geography but instead educational philosophy.

Besides, I don't think any private school sustains itself on kids from one town alone. We had kids from a different STATE being day students at my private school.

[baseballchica03]

We had kids from a different STATE being day students at my private school.

We had a few kids from Canada at my high school, which was a private school. [NB: I do not live in Canada.]

[thepastperfect]

Agreed. IRL, I went to an independent school that served as the public school for a bunch of rural Vermont/New Hampshire towns, so we had kids commuting an hour or two to school.

In BSCland, I think Stoneybrook is too small to support two dedicated private schools (of course, Stoneybrook is probably also too small to support a university and a community college, but at least with a university you'd have people living in dorms).

[anneliese]

iawtc. I work at a private school and have seen how different the private schools in the area are... some are much more diverse and tend to be community-oriented, while some are bastions of white segregation populated by old money Southerners. The philosophy of a school makes a big impact on the student body; when you're talking about private schools, geography is rarely a big factor.

[sleepherealone]

Ugh, I SHOULD be able to remember, but did they say what grade they went up to at SA? Was it only up to middle school, or did they specify?

[finding_jay]

I think they have a middle school. In the book where Karen gets a godawful haircut, I think she said some middle schoolers were whispering about her, and at the end, they come to school toting the same haircut. I may be wrong, though. I haven't read the book in years.

[xxevereverafter]

In LS 11, an eighth grader from SA takes Karen's photo for the school newspaper after she wins the spelling bee.

[lauren5678]

The little house is clearly in Stoneybrook.

[oneexcitedlamb]

Yep, the little house is even on the BSC map. It's in the lower right corner.

[lauren5678]

I was just gonna add that! :)

[cassandraclue]

and sa is near kendallwood farms, right? or am i making that up?

[eengah]

Sorry to be posting someone else's links, I had these bookmarked. But if you look at the Stoneybrook map in the back of the CG, #66 on the map key is listed as their little house, which means it's over on Forest Drive, lower right hand of the map.

[kissmaiden]

I don't think the illustrator of the map had read the books though, because if you look at Stoneybrook Day School it is at the end of Kristy's street, but in #11 Shannon is waiting for the bus outside her house.

[cassandraclue]

i think there's more houses than are shown on the map... it's just to give a general idea.

[otempora541]

Agreed. That's my big issue with the map.