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[quote=Anonymous]Here is my feedback from that thread....

I have one kid who went there and one who is currently there. Both are good students that pull from the relatively more affluent Arlington Forest neighborhood.

Overall, we thought the school was/is a good experience. The facility itself is great and the class sizes are on the small side. About 80% of the teachers are good/excellent. That said, both kids had one or two bad teachers - which required a outside intervention (private tutoring) on our part to address.

While I do think the school make up is evolving, it is still the case that white kids are in the minority. The diverse make-up of the schools didn't appear to cause problems though. In fact, overall, I would say it was a positive for my kids.

While I thought Dr. Work was a pretty decent Principal, his departure might be a good thing. He made some pretty questionable hiring decisions over the years. I also thought his obsession with equality of opportunity meant that differentiation opportunities were largely limited to math.

There is one feature of Kenmore that really stands out - remarkably little homework. We know kids that went to Swanson and it sounded like they would often have two hours or more of homework a night. At Kenmore. it was/is typically one hour or less. There are some advantages to this (more opportunity to explore other endeavors), but it does mean that the homework at W-L was something of a shock to my eldest[/quote]

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