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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids at a top private and the lifers bridge from 8th to 9th with very little problem. New kids from public seem shocked that every grade isn’t an A, there are no retakes, no extra credit, and you need to be efficient in class and study hall if you don’t want to spend your entire evening doing homework. Of course the B students in middle school are still B students in high school, but the top solid a students seem to have come up through the entire system and know how to succeed at our school the first day of high school, whereas it takes even the smartest public school transfers some time to figure things out.[/quote]
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My kids are lifers at a k-12. The kids who need more specialized instruction or who have learning differences or who just find it to be too much work leave bf 9th. Some are counseled out, and some just find a better fit. Not to stereotype, but a lot of the kids who enter from public have a wake up call bc there’s no curve, no retakes, etc. You can’t get by on memorization, and the writing level that’s expected is incredibly high. This seems surprising to some kids who come from smaller privates, too. The standard for writing is high in non-English classes in high school, and many seem surprised that this matters for science and history classes. [/quote]

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