Whose happy with Jackson Reed this year. Considering new Macarthur school.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.

The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.

The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

DP. No kids at either school. You know you are talking to different people right? Poster above said nothing to this effect.

What he said was kids are held to a higher standard of responsibility and accountability and if they don’t make that standard there are no retry’s, 2nd chances, handholding. They feel the full effects of their actions no matter if they like it or not.

This is a good thing in my opinion. This is how the real works works and real life. Schools should have certain standards and not dilute it or lower it in the name of some social engineering BS in the name of equity which DCPS does if you want to admit it or not.

Just so I understand, the kids at private schools (and their parents) happily accept whatever grades teachers give them and just live with them? No one ever appeals a grade or asks the teacher to reconsider? That doesn’t happen?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

DP. No kids at either school. You know you are talking to different people right? Poster above said nothing to this effect.

What he said was kids are held to a higher standard of responsibility and accountability and if they don’t make that standard there are no retry’s, 2nd chances, handholding. They feel the full effects of their actions no matter if they like it or not.

This is a good thing in my opinion. This is how the real works works and real life. Schools should have certain standards and not dilute it or lower it in the name of some social engineering BS in the name of equity which DCPS does if you want to admit it or not.

Just so I understand, the kids at private schools (and their parents) happily accept whatever grades teachers give them and just live with them? No one ever appeals a grade or asks the teacher to reconsider? That doesn’t happen?

No kids in private but a kid appealing here and there is totally different from every single kid getting to do retakes, a failing grade is not a failing grade, getting to hand in assignments late whenever you want and barely getting dinged for it, and you can pass a class doing absolutely nothing.

Totally different ballgame, if you don’t understand that don’t know what to say.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

DP. No kids at either school. You know you are talking to different people right? Poster above said nothing to this effect.

What he said was kids are held to a higher standard of responsibility and accountability and if they don’t make that standard there are no retry’s, 2nd chances, handholding. They feel the full effects of their actions no matter if they like it or not.

This is a good thing in my opinion. This is how the real works works and real life. Schools should have certain standards and not dilute it or lower it in the name of some social engineering BS in the name of equity which DCPS does if you want to admit it or not.

Just so I understand, the kids at private schools (and their parents) happily accept whatever grades teachers give them and just live with them? No one ever appeals a grade or asks the teacher to reconsider? That doesn’t happen?

No kids in private but a kid appealing here and there is totally different from every single kid getting to do retakes, a failing grade is not a failing grade, getting to hand in assignments late whenever you want and barely getting dinged for it, and you can pass a class doing absolutely nothing.

Totally different ballgame, if you don’t understand that don’t know what to say.

I mean…here’s what PP said: “kids are held to a higher standard of responsibility and accountability and if they don’t make that standard there are no retry’s, 2nd chances, handholding. They feel the full effects of their actions no matter if they like it or not.”

That sounds like private school kids just take what’s given them and don’t complain, and their parents happily accept whatever grades are meted out. If that’s true…wow! But if not, the distinctions you’re making about “now and then” don’t seem particularly concrete or meaningful. Seems like semantics.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.

The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.

The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

This has wandered pretty far from the original topic, which was JR versus MacArthur. We all appreciate that there are a lot of rich people in DC who would not deign to send their kids to either. But perhaps it would be more helpful if those people took themselves off to the private school board, and left this board for people who are trying to make good choices within reasonable financial constraints.

[Anonymous]

Facing financial constraints? Aiming high for college. Put in for BASIS in 4th grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Facing financial constraints? Aiming high for college. Put in for BASIS in 4th grade.

Seems like terrible advice for a current 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th grader.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.

The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.



The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.

To be fair, about a quarter of the class had GPAs between 3.5 and 3.99 (unweighted). So there seems to be an abundance of As, but nowhere near "massive grade inflation".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.



The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.

To be fair, about a quarter of the class had GPAs between 3.5 and 3.99 (unweighted). So there seems to be an abundance of As, but nowhere near "massive grade inflation".

How many weighted GPAs above 4.0?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.



The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.

To be fair, about a quarter of the class had GPAs between 3.5 and 3.99 (unweighted). So there seems to be an abundance of As, but nowhere near "massive grade inflation".

How many weighted GPAs above 4.0?

Why does that matter? Top colleges care about performance and rigor. Rigor they can see from the AP courses on the transcript, performance from the unweighted GPA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.



The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.

To be fair, about a quarter of the class had GPAs between 3.5 and 3.99 (unweighted). So there seems to be an abundance of As, but nowhere near "massive grade inflation".

How many weighted GPAs above 4.0?

Why does that matter? Top colleges care about performance and rigor. Rigor they can see from the AP courses on the transcript, performance from the unweighted GPA.

I'm curious. You or another PP posted a bunch of select stats. I'd be interested in a fuller picture, as it is relevant to the above discussion.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction.

yup. My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am. If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%.
8:01 arrival? That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up).

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges.

Let’s be truthful here. The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up.



The Deal/JR great days are gone. It’s gone downhill since the honors for all. Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security. Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.

Above is not specific to JR. It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.

To be fair, about a quarter of the class had GPAs between 3.5 and 3.99 (unweighted). So there seems to be an abundance of As, but nowhere near "massive grade inflation".

How many weighted GPAs above 4.0?

Why does that matter? Top colleges care about performance and rigor. Rigor they can see from the AP courses on the transcript, performance from the unweighted GPA.

I'm curious. You or another PP posted a bunch of select stats. I'd be interested in a fuller picture, as it is relevant to the above discussion.

The stats are from the school profile, which doesn’t give the distribution of weighted GPAs. I think it’s smart of JR to give just the unweighted distribution, because it’s giving top colleges the stats they actually want. A kid with a 4.0 unweighted and a lot of APs is actually rare at JR, and the college admissions for those kids reflect that.

High unweighted GPAs are valuable for merit discounts at schools like WVU, which is valuable to a different tranche of JR students. The system at JR serves both groups well.

Private schools are playing a different game; they’re sending their second-tier students full pay to second-tier SLACs. They don’t need grade bumps in GPA because the admissions offices at those schools add points for having attended a rigorous high school (or, more cynically, for having attended an expensive high school).