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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, I still don't get what this school is supposed to be?

SWW is a HS program deliberately integrated with GW.  The possible benefit for even the most advanced of elementary students in such a program is a hallucination.

Obviously, the selling point is the "prestige" of SWW's brand attached to a neighborhood school - for those too excitable and easily distracted to think it through.

How is this any different from the same old neighborhood school that has been ignored - probably deservedly - for decades?

It sounds like New Coke.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

We're inbounds for sww@fs, so we attended several planning meetings.  In fact, it is a new school, nearly all teachers are new, new assistant and associate principals, new maintenance team.  Very impressed by quality of new leadership and teaching team.  As for integration with GW, that was still Tbd.  But GW does have an education department, so some synergy is certainly possible there.  Definitely a very thoughtful fresh start.

By the way, I grew up in another city where one of the most prestigious high schools (grades 7-12) and one of the most progressive elementary schools (grades k-6) were both affiliated with a local public university.  The elementary and high schools schools were very different, and relations between them varied over the years.  At the time, high school admissions were much more selective, and elementary school students were not guaranteed admission to high school.  No reason sww and sww@fs can't work out something similar. [/quote]

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