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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's a terrible thing to do to your 8th graders to not give them good recommendations. I suspect that happened at our school as well (not Basis). It makes me really angry. I think the teachers may not understand what a big deal this is and how tanking a kid's chance at the high school of their choice can have major consequences.[/quote] This is actually on Walls for weighting the recs so (stupidly) heavily in their screening. It's reasonable for teachers to make an honest assessment, but it's ridiculous for those teacher assessments (especially in the small-ish pool of kids with excellent grades) to DISQUALIFY a kid from a selective high school. By definition, a kid with a 4.0 is submitting assignments, participating in class, and doing well on test. So the teacher rec is really just how much the teacher *likes* your kid.[/quote] You're right. Hopefully they can evaluate whether the system they went with this year worked well and switch things up next year. Having it all be so subjective seems a lot worse than going with test scores. Any test scores.[/quote]
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