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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would assume the selection bias continues to exist in a public HS with a high percentage of parents who are intellectuals (either academic or artistic or otherwise). I think the point of the original post you quote was that you certainly cannot look exclusively at achievement statistics for these areas schools and infer anything about the actual teaching done there. In an ideal world, you would know all the attributes about your child and know what school helps the kid with those attributes at entry do best (according to whatever metric you or your child care about).[/quote] Hmmph. Simply put there is afterteaching in aware households. STA teaches kids to write and has small class sizes. Practical instruction in math and science. The older kids who actually play sports on an intense level at STA have no time for afterschooling so you know the teaching is good. the meatheads are successful....a pun on the Sidwellian outlook.[/quote]
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