Walls vs Private- How Would You Compare

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

Just think of what she could have accomplished if she had gone to private school instead!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She gives Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

Just think of what she could have accomplished if she had gone to private school instead!!!

Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

[Anonymous]

Harvard has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other university, with a total of about 385 or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other university, with a total of about 385 or so.

Correct. The Rhodes scholarship is based on research/qualifications/awards/etc achieved at the collegiate level. Read a few announcements--they don't mention high schools or anything an applicant did at the high school level.
The people who win them are extraordinary outliers who would be successful at ANY school.
Recent DC winners included:
2023 Yale St Albans.
2022 Harvard Walls
2021 Stanford Jackson Reed
2016 Yale GDS
2015 Stanford Richard Montgomery
2013 Stanford Thomas Jefferson

In the years I didn't mention the winner were from random Maryland high schools or from the Naval Academy or Georgetown (you can win a region either by gong to college there or being from there).

The thing all these kids had in common is that they were EXTRAORDINARY OUTLIERS in their respective colleges. Most were crazy outliers in high school as well. The Jackson Reed guy was tutoring Georgetown and GW college students in math and computer science while he was still in high school. He was taking graduate level classes in math at Stanford and GW WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL. Basically Jackson Reed had next to nothing to do with his success--except they flexed and allowed him to take graduate level classes elsewhere while being enrolled in their school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls. That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other university, with a total of about 385 or so.

And yet the vast majority of Harvard graduates are not Rhodes Scholars, nor would they qualify.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other university, with a total of about 385 or so.

Correct. The Rhodes scholarship is based on research/qualifications/awards/etc achieved at the collegiate level. Read a few announcements--they don't mention high schools or anything an applicant did at the high school level.
The people who win them are extraordinary outliers who would be successful at ANY school.
Recent DC winners included:
2023 Yale St Albans.
2022 Harvard Walls
2021 Stanford Jackson Reed
2016 Yale GDS
2015 Stanford Richard Montgomery
2013 Stanford Thomas Jefferson

In the years I didn't mention the winner were from random Maryland high schools or from the Naval Academy or Georgetown (you can win a region either by gong to college there or being from there).

The thing all these kids had in common is that they were EXTRAORDINARY OUTLIERS in their respective colleges. Most were crazy outliers in high school as well. The Jackson Reed guy was tutoring Georgetown and GW college students in math and computer science while he was still in high school. He was taking graduate level classes in math at Stanford and GW WHILE IN HIGH SCHOOL. Basically Jackson Reed had next to nothing to do with his success--except they flexed and allowed him to take graduate level classes elsewhere while being enrolled in their school.

Reading is indeed fundamental. The Walls/Harvard/Rhodes Scholar credits Walls. Those are her words, NOT mine.

Why are you trying to argue this point?!? She is entitled to give credit to Walls if she wants to give the school credit. Do not substitute your opinion for hers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls. That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.

She participated in the GW exposure program (one GW class per term). She did not participate in the GW dual enrollment program, so most of her upper level classes were taken at Walls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls. That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.

She participated in the GW exposure program (one GW class per term). She did not participate in the GW dual enrollment program, so most of her upper level classes were taken at Walls.

Wrong. She finished all the Walls math offerings (AP calc) in 10th grade. She took 5 math classes at GW in 11th and 12th.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls. That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.

She participated in the GW exposure program (one GW class per term). She did not participate in the GW dual enrollment program, so most of her upper level classes were taken at Walls.

You are completely making this up. Her 11th and 12th grade STEM classes WERE ALL TAKEN OUTSIDE OF WALLS. They were not WALLS OR DCPS COURSES.
She took the bare minimum at Walls after 10th grade.
Read the article.
Reading is fundamental.

[Anonymous]

If there is any credit due for this girl it is her parents and Basis.
Her mom when to Harvard and Harvard Law School. Her dad went to Oxford.
She attended Basis DC through 8th grade and started Algebra there as a 5th grader. She went on to Walls and took 1, max 2 math classes there and then took at least 5 college level math classes at GW, including vector calculus and linear algebra
Basically her STEM education was at Basis DC followed by George Washington University.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls. That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.

She participated in the GW exposure program (one GW class per term). She did not participate in the GW dual enrollment program, so most of her upper level classes were taken at Walls.

Wrong. She finished all the Walls math offerings (AP calc) in 10th grade. She took 5 math classes at GW in 11th and 12th.

How does that contradict what I said? You can start taking exposure classes the summer after 10th grade. That means that she, and every other Walls student, can take up to 6 GW classes as part of the exposure program (1 class/term (fall, spring and summer)). Do you think she only took GW math classes in 11th and 12th grade?!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools. Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows. The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private. If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls. I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you. She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics. She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc. She would have rise to the top at any school. Really.

Complete and utter nonsense. I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter. Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents. While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars. These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation. Argue with her, not me.

She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls. That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.

She participated in the GW exposure program (one GW class per term). She did not participate in the GW dual enrollment program, so most of her upper level classes were taken at Walls.

You are completely making this up. Her 11th and 12th grade STEM classes WERE ALL TAKEN OUTSIDE OF WALLS. They were not WALLS OR DCPS COURSES.
She took the bare minimum at Walls after 10th grade.
Read the article.
Reading is fundamental.

No, you NEED to read the articles. She only took 1 GW math class per term (fall and spring of 11th and 12 th grade, and one summer). The rest of her classes were taken at Walls. Some of you are really slow.