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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You mean the schools that allowed you to success and rise to the umc? The schools that got you to Mclean and sending your kids to Sidwell? Those schools?[/quote]

Those success examples are the exception rather than the rule at those schools.  Probably 1 success for every 800 failures.

As Mike Tyson famously once said:  EVERYONE HAS A PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE MOUTH.

If you feel Wakefield is a good school and want to send your kids there, please go ahead.  This is a free country and everyone has the right to be stupid  :cry: [/quote]

800 failures? Where on earth are you getting your stats?
You sound very bitter. You’ll feel so much lighter without the chip you are carrying around.[/quote]

DP.  I think the problem with schools like Wakefield isn't necessarily that an academically inclined student can't be successful academically, it's that they will be surrounded by many more kids who are not so inclined, and many more kids who lack parental supervision.  The pp acknowledged that the recent immigrants also will do well academically, but you also have to consider the environment you want your kids in.  My kids are at Title I schools.  My oldest was recently threatened with physical violence for something DC didn't do and DC could ultimately prove that DC wasn't involved.  Threats of physical harm are not uncommon at that school.  That was not the case at my predominantly UMC high school.  While DC is doing very well academically, I am considering whether we should move.  There likely will be access to harder drugs at an affluent school, but I think I can teach my kids about those dangers more than I can protect them from kids who think you settle issue through physical altercations.  [/quote]

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