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[quote=Anonymous][[b]quote=Anonymous]Regarding previous posters on Math: what is the evidence that WES kids are behind in Math compared to others? 
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The success of WES graduates in high school admissions and beyond does not support the claim.

Finally, anonymity in this forum does not necessarily serve parents who seek unbiased opinion about a school they are interested in. [/quote]

Former WES parent here.  Regarding math.  I did not follow what was going on with Math at WES during the years I and my three children were there.  I should have.  Other parents, especially dad's (i'm a dad) started complaining about the lack of rigor in math.  The complaints started @ 2d grade.  Later, when we moved kids to the public school system, we found they were way behind their contemporaries in math.  One child had to be tutored ($$) off-site to catch up.  Another is off to college but has not had Pre-Calc or Calc.  That was the first question the college interviewer asked:  Have you had calculus?  Answer: "No" because child was behind from years at WES so had to play catch-up..  For example, two of our children had to take 
Algebra I (frosh), Geometry (soph.), Algebra II (Jr.) and then Computer Math (Sr.).  Had they been better prepared, they could have taken pre-cal, cal, statistics, linear equations, etc. etc. etc. that our high school offers, but our kids could not benefit from those courses or Math AP courses because they were so far behind the kids from the public school pyramid.[/quote]

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