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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just got a speech from HOS at our independent school, grades will be a thing of the past. 
They are following the example of Andover, Exeter, etc...
So not only are they dropping AP, they are going to get rid of grades entirely.

What say you DCUM hive?[/quote]

I think this wonderful -- very progressive.  [b]Any child gaining acceptance to an elite private in the first place is bound to perform well anyway.[/b]  Bravo![/quote]

See, this is the bias that is BS. [/quote]

Agree this is total BS. My kid left DCPS for a Big3 for high school and we had no idea how he/she would perform.  Turns out she/he is performing at the top of the class.  
My eyes are opened that a lot of the kids at these top schools are not genius level kids but are there because of other reasons: early childhood admissions, legacy status, sports, siblings, VIPs--the list goes on and on.  I knew this in theory but now that I have a kid there I'm seeing it play out.  My kid works reasonably hard but isn't a genius and was able to quite easily rise to the top of the cohort.  There are a lot of kids in these schools that aren't academic overachievers at all. [/quote]

Agree.

wash DC private school environment is not intellectually merit based nor even close to the demands or academic student body caliber of NE boarding schools or top NYC private schools or large city magnet public programs.

We were hoping it wouldn’t be that since we like the well-rounded curriculum but the robustness is not there. And we are not in the upper school yet. Student body at the lower years was based on peanuts concerned for behavior or attention issues, and tradition (parent went there, lots is wealth so why not).[/quote]

Is there a Private School anywhere filled entirely with geniuses ? Did you seriously imagine that to be the case, that counter to all of your experience at college or your work environment or even Corp America or US Gov’t where there is a mix of intellect and different t qualities that play into one’s ability to be a leader, an innovator that somehow one school would be different than ALL of those other places ?

I think at most of these schools - and they are pretty much all the same - the top 15 percent of the class is very, very bright and you may have a few exceptional kids thrown in there , but what makes these school great educators isn’t that they are packed with genius kids - it’s the very high standards set for the middle of the pack on down - the fact that the expectations are set extremely high for them - as the norm - that the teachers teach to the top 15 percent t level and the kids are molded - and learn about themselves and develop real tough discipline and determination because they actually accept those expectations and then work their A@@ off

Being a genius doesn’t necessarily determine how far you will go in life - being determined often does

The teachers at this school are a great credit to this institution for tge academic environment they have created[/quote]

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