Excuse me, but HUH? Suri's not even eight years old yet. She hasn't "turned out" to be anything yet.
Suri does have the great advantage of attending an actual school at the moment.
have been stabilizing for them or not -- there's no way we could know that. But as far as the Cruise kids' unaccredited Delphi Hubbardian educations offering them a good launchpad for their futures, I wouldn't credit the school at all.
Here's some information about Delphi's educational results that Delphi won't share:
"Delphi claims 96% of its students apply for admission to college. Included in a packet of explanatory and promotional material they provided me was a page entitled "Partial List of Colleges and Universities that have Accepted Delphi Graduates." I wrote each of the 35 U.S. schools on that list. Of the 27 that replied, only 3 acknowleged having received applications from Delphi students in recent years; 16 said either they had not received such applications or they could not consider them. For example, U.C. Santa Barbara said it "...does not accept students applying from Delphi Academy...because Delphi is not an accredited institution."
So, I researched secondary school accreditation in California. I had a correspondence with the Director of Undergraduate Admissions for the University of California, who told me U.C. recognizes only one accrediting agency: the Accrediting Commission for Schools. That organization wrote me to say Delphi is not accredited.
I contacted an official in the state department of education who told me the state does not accredit schools.
I wrote American College Testing, which replied, "Few if any Delphi students have taken the ACT test."
I wrote Educational Testing Service; unfortunately, they were unwilling to provide information about Delphi students' history with the SAT's."
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mystory/stud...
This is a good website on the subject
http://www.studytech.org
In short, they don't realise any credible checkable statistics, and when they do they are shown to be dubious.
Experts in the Education field invariably don't like it at best.
This article will demonstrate this, and confirm what I said about the experts.
http://www.studytech.org/study_tech4.php
And the conclusion:
http://www.studytech.org/study_tech5.php
Here's another look at, some figures are mentioned, but it's from 1997.
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/mystory/delp...
Johanna Lemlech, a professor of education at USC specializing in curriculum and teaching, calls the books "awful." They "violate everything we know about how children learn, and appropriate pedagogy," she says. "In short, these books should be carefully placed in the cylindrical file."
http://www.studytech.org/archives/000008...
I also think you will find that for the teaching they follow and use the established curriculum as they have to by law, and so the study tech is nothing more than an unnecessary aid in their education. Thus their results should be around the same as other schools in similiar areas. I would also venture that you won't find a Delphi School sitting in the middle of a socially disadvantaged area.
So I did some research of my own looked it up on K12 website, found a Delphi School.
Within a 35 km radius of one of their schools the avg. for grade 10 math was 74%m, Delphi scored 67%
For english lang. / arts the avg. was 72.5% while Delphi got 73%, which sat in between the middle of the two closest schools, 68% and 81%. Those 2 schools both outdid Delphi on the whole, and are only 9 and 10 km away...
The two closest schools actually have more disadvantaged kids than delphi, although delphi did actually give the most stats on this.
http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/cs_c...
I tried to look at the Delphi Academies, but there were no results for the ones I looked at...