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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s a little secret: The top students who stay in public want to go to Wilson. Sure, there are bright kids at Walls, but not the top kids. Walls  is known for busy work, group projects and field trips.  The majority of Wilson teachers are younger and more engaged, although there are a few exceptions, and this is not the case at Walls where there are many older teachers who frankly are terrible.  See, the kids know this —- listen to them once in a while— but the adults  are clueless. 🤷‍♀️[/quote]

How do you square your interpretation with all the complaints about the Wilson principal and Honors for All?

I disagree with the assertions of this poster as a parent of a Walls student.  It is not that there are not strong students at both schools, but for some the smaller school with more autonomy (open campus from freshman year) is a better fit.  Also, all the students are all engaged hard working students and they come from all over the city.  Wilson is largely Deal continued.  I agree the teachers are not all exceptional but I would argue the student cohort is exceptional.[/quote]

There is widespread agreement that the student cohort is the main advantage of Walls over Wilson and that Wilson has the advantage of better teachers (and perhaps the highest achieving students, if not the most uniformly high achievers)...but there without the admissions test and the incoming students at Walls were screened on 7th grade grades alone...and those were grossly inflated due to COVID.  Combined with the fact that they interviewed 500, rather than the usual 250, and the interview process is complete garbage, it is highly doubtful that this year's 9th graders at Walls will be as strong as years past.  But time will tell...

For interested folks, there was a Walls vs Wilson thread a month or two ago...it was interesting and there were clearly pros and cons to each but overall, Wilson parents seemed to be happier (and there were quite a few parents with a kid at each....) and the sense was that Walls was overrated.[/quote]

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