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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reposting my response from your first post in the wrong forum (which you should ask Jeff to remove) Did you apply to private schools? What was your back up if he didn't get into Walls? Yes, it's a bad idea. How much of a bad idea depends on the other options. [/quote] This is OP. So yes his private option is St. John's and we have committed but still have the few weeks left to decide for DCPS. Our back up was to move or rent in bounds for Jackson Reed so I'm glad we don't need to look at that. I have talked to parents who say the workload isn't awful at Walls and who say that its not easy at St John's. He very definitely isn't interested in Walls but I think he would be fine if he were there.[/quote] I have a kid at SJC. Workload is really not that bad. It is all well organized in Canvas so you always know what is due the next day, and they have a fairly strict late policy. Kind of makes it straightforward for the kid to understand that what is due tomorrow, is really due tomorrow (you can be late with things, but only be I think one day and your max grade for one day late is reduced). My kid was all Honors classes in 9th and didn't find the workload particularly bad (maybe averaged an hour of homework per night?). As you might expect, the school is very tolerating of missing class/school for sports commitments and then making up the work as a result. Tolerating in that a teacher knows why you missed a test that day...but you do need to communicate a bunch with the teachers to make-up work and make it up on the schedule they give you. Yes, all the sports are right on campus at SJC...but super competitive for the most part...there are no cut sports like XCountry and a sport like crew doesn't really cut...however, crew is the one sport where Walls is much more convenient to the boat house vs. SJC. [/quote]
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