NEW YORK
Wall Street Journal
By SOPHIA HOLLANDER
March 3, 2014
Last summer, Robert Boynton was strolling through his Brooklyn neighborhood when he was struck by the grades pasted in the windows of every restaurant.
“This is weird,” he remembers thinking. “Why do I know more about the health conditions at my local restaurant than the school I spend $45,000 sending my kid to?”
It was one of the inspirations behind a decision by the Horace Mann Action Coalition, a group of alumni, to create letter grades for private schools in the New York City area based on the strength of their policies to prevent sexual abuse. Mr. Boynton helped found the group to address allegations that faculty and administrators at the elite Bronx private school sexually abused more than two dozen students from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Last May, the school apologized in a letter posted on its website for “unconscionable betrayals of trust,” acknowledging that “it is clear” that former teachers and administrators “in fact did abuse” students.
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