What's The Deal with Walls

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

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01/22/2023 15:46

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Anonymous wrote:Sure but only 1% of Walls has IEPs, so your talking just a handful of kids.

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

I agree with you but your answer will not sit well with lots of DCUM.

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01/22/2023 15:51

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Anonymous wrote:Sure but only 1% of Walls has IEPs, so your talking just a handful of kids.

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

I have a kid with an IEP for an observable issue and I'd feel a lot better that this is the just the natural result of Wall's rigor and workload if 30/36 of the points for admissions weren't coming out of an interview process that no one has any interest in explaining or analyzing. Use their tests and grades instead and then you can say the issue is the academics.

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01/22/2023 15:57

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure but only 1% of Walls has IEPs, so your talking just a handful of kids.

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

I have a kid with an IEP for an observable issue and I'd feel a lot better that this is the just the natural result of Wall's rigor and workload if 30/36 of the points for admissions weren't coming out of an interview process that no one has any interest in explaining or analyzing. Use their tests and grades instead and then you can say the issue is the academics.

While I don’t love the interview and find the scoring murky at best, grades are considered to get to the interview round. So every kid who interviews has very high GPA to begin with.

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01/22/2023 16:30

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure but only 1% of Walls has IEPs, so your talking just a handful of kids.

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

I have a kid with an IEP for an observable issue and I'd feel a lot better that this is the just the natural result of Wall's rigor and workload if 30/36 of the points for admissions weren't coming out of an interview process that no one has any interest in explaining or analyzing. Use their tests and grades instead and then you can say the issue is the academics.

While I don’t love the interview and find the scoring murky at best, grades are considered to get to the interview round. So every kid who interviews has very high GPA to begin with.

Yes, but the amount of discretion given to interviews within that large group of students still leaves a lot of room for interview bias as a driver of low IEPs in a way that it wouldn't if it were just grades and scores (or those + middle school balancing or anything else transparent.)

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01/22/2023 21:15

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure but only 1% of Walls has IEPs, so your talking just a handful of kids.

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

I have a kid with an IEP for an observable issue and I'd feel a lot better that this is the just the natural result of Wall's rigor and workload if 30/36 of the points for admissions weren't coming out of an interview process that no one has any interest in explaining or analyzing. Use their tests and grades instead and then you can say the issue is the academics.

While I don’t love the interview and find the scoring murky at best, grades are considered to get to the interview round. So every kid who interviews has very high GPA to begin with.

Yes, but the amount of discretion given to interviews within that large group of students still leaves a lot of room for interview bias as a driver of low IEPs in a way that it wouldn't if it were just grades and scores (or those + middle school balancing or anything else transparent.)

How would the interviewer know the kid has an IEP unless you told them?

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01/22/2023 22:09

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure but only 1% of Walls has IEPs, so your talking just a handful of kids.

As it should be. Walls’ academic rigor and workload would not be a good fit for most IEP students. The Big 3/5 independent schools also don’t admit a lot of students with IEPs. Every academic environment isn’t a good fit for every student. That’s the purpose of comprehensive public schools.

I have a kid with an IEP for an observable issue and I'd feel a lot better that this is the just the natural result of Wall's rigor and workload if 30/36 of the points for admissions weren't coming out of an interview process that no one has any interest in explaining or analyzing. Use their tests and grades instead and then you can say the issue is the academics.

While I don’t love the interview and find the scoring murky at best, grades are considered to get to the interview round. So every kid who interviews has very high GPA to begin with.

Yes, but the amount of discretion given to interviews within that large group of students still leaves a lot of room for interview bias as a driver of low IEPs in a way that it wouldn't if it were just grades and scores (or those + middle school balancing or anything else transparent.)

How would the interviewer know the kid has an IEP unless you told them?

That depends on why they have the IEP. There are a number of reasons why kids have IEPs that an interviewer would definitely notice or might pick up on.