Alternatives to Public School with accelerated academic standards, and smaller class sizes. There are three broad categories: parochial schools; boarding schools; and secular day schools. I attended the latter in my youth; a small school (Montessori through 8th grade) called Green Hedges, which is situated in Vienna, Virginia. The school was founded by Joyce Kilmer, and Joyce's descendants still lived in a house adjacent to the school while I attended. Many a day did we recite "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree..."