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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]its the perfect school for people who want everyone to get first place trophies.[/quote]

Wrong again!  It's a school generally that doesn't like to give trophies or even to compute GPA or class rank.  And a school that encourages you not to compare yourself with your classmates but to ask yourself whether you can do more/better.  Then it offers some pretty amazing people (live and dead) as role models.

Now, there are a lot of ways people can respond to that.  The story about the "helpful/welcoming" college freshmen captures one version.  But "it's never good enough" is another because, hey, you can always do more/better.  There are open-ended assignments that enable kids to do some very ambitious academic work, but that don't require it.  And a truncated enough grading system that hard work and intellectual ambition may not feel worth the extra effort.  Especially when the effect of doing something great is the assumption that you should do something even better next time.  Then throw in opportunities to rewrite or get extensions or do extra credit and the hamster wheel can keep turning until the hamster drops dead from exhaustion.  [/quote]

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