{"id":22869,"date":"2023-01-12T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=22869"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:55:49","slug":"meet-the-mcbroom-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2023\/01\/12\/meet-the-mcbroom-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet The McBroom Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22871 alignright img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/McBroomstory.jpg\" alt=\"The McBroom Family\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>The McBroom Family from Oakdale has been at MPA for three years. They have a fourth grader and a sixth grader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love about MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nWe love the connectedness, the openness of the community, and the personal attention for our children. It seems the school really knows them as individuals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What initially attracted you to MPA?\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nWe were looking for a closer connection to the school, rather than our children being another number. We want to give them the best experience we can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your child has attended another school, how has your experience at MPA been different?<\/strong><br \/>\nThey are known as individuals with different characteristics, interests, and abilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell another family considering MPA?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt may be the best choice we&#8217;ve made for our children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In what ways has MPA prepared your child for life in the 21st century? What are the key attributes, skills, and content that you find most valuable?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe world does not run on math and science alone. Understanding world issues, and how to connect to others with empathy and understanding will hopefully lead to a more fulfilling life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McBroom Family from Oakdale has been at MPA for three years. They have a fourth grader and a sixth grader. What do you love about MPA? We love the connectedness, the openness of the community, and the personal attention for our children. It seems the school really knows them as individuals. What initially attracted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,28,24,29,9,12,27,10026],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admission","category-current-families","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-middle-school","category-my-mpa-experience","category-parent-and-family-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22931,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22869\/revisions\/22931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}