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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that advising kids to matriculate to one of the schools that accepted them is hardly alarming advice, and that, if they are opposed to that then advising them that their other options are to take a gap year or go to a school that accepted them and try to transfer in a year is just speaking truth.

What else would you want them to say to a kid who chose their matches and safeties badly and is now upset at their options?  Is there some other option missing?[/quote]

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The problem (as I hear it) is that what can be considered a safety has shifted.  What was a safety even last year is no longer a safety. 
The kids in the lower 50% of the class are getting shut out or close to shut out. [/quote]

I heard the above from Texas but with the opposite outcome. Because they stayed open for full school throughout it Covid and had highly educated parents sub as needed for contact tracing numbers, they did very well with their APs, ECs, and classes the last four years and outperformed for college acceptances versus previous years. These are districts that have tons of test in magnet schools and speciality high schools (engineering, culinary, premed, etc tracks).

Did y’all’s kids write about Covid shutdowns in their essays? That may have been more of a disadvantage than you realize.[/quote]

Private schools here did not shut down.[/quote]

Your memory is short. Not as long as the publics, but GDS US, for one, was closed for months. I remember the wailing, gnashing of teeth and rending of garments. The Catholics got it done though.

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GDS was basically shut March 20 through Jan 21. Spring 21 were hybrid (awful) with teachers mostly at home and some kids in classroom. It was miserable. As soon as Sidwell moved to get kids back, GDS immediately followed. Faculty was fighting it the entire way. Pitched battle between faculty and HoS who wanted kids back after vaccines were in arms[/quote]

GDS went back on a hybrid schedule in November of 2020. I think a lot of schools tried the hybrid model until vaccines were out.[/quote]

Fall:  Pk-8 was 2.5 hours of zoom a day. Grades 9-12 was more hours of zoom, Wednesdays off

Post thanksgiving: pK-8 was 8am to noon in person, 10 kids per class. Grades 9-10 had Alternating A group and b group weeks in person. B group didn’t start until January. Many teachers chose to teach virtually from home.

It was pretty subpar and no remedial work was offered over the summer nor the subsequent fall.[/quote]

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