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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The poster seems to be saying that JR is good for their kid so they can look down and shun other kids.  They can stand out in a sea of low performers.

[quote=Anonymous][b]So you are stating that JR is a phenomenal school for your high performing snowflake and about 25 other kids but overall a low performing school[/b]?

[quote=Anonymous]When you send your teens to JR to take a full course load of AP classes from 10th or 11th grade, and maybe college classes through dual enrollment as a senior, you don't care what the students who aren't on track to attend competitive colleges are up to. Your student has almost nothing to do with these kids. They pass them in hallways and the cafeteria and that's about it, unless they play sports with them.

There are always trade-offs in choosing schools. We stuck BASIS out for middle school with no interest in staying for high school for a variety of reasons. My eldest fared better in college admissions from JR than the BASIS friends he keeps in touch with who stayed for high school. [/quote][/quote][/quote]

No, you're saying that.

When a teen, as an upper grades public high school student, takes a full menu of the most advanced classes available in any large school, they mainly mix with peers in those classes and their ECs. IF the ECs have an academic bent, e.g. chess, robotics or debate, they probably participate with most of the same students as those in their AP or IBD classes. That's the way it has always worked all, over this country.

At JR, you have at least 100 students in a class of around 500 who are on track to attend competitive colleges, with two dozen likely to crack the most highly competitive colleges. These kids, the most academic of their cohorts, are hardly sheltered, stuck up, pampered "snowflakes."

We get it. You've bought into the principle of BASIS exceptionalism with your whole heart, mind and soul, disdainful of all in the DC public school system who have not. What else is true about you is that you don't live in Upper NW.   [/quote]

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