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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIIW, DS graduated from Walls a few years ago, went to a selective SLAC and was completely unprepared his first semester. DCPS across the board does not prepare (most) kids for college very well. DS learned his lessons and did much better in subsequent semesters, now has a great (and meaningful) job he loves. So maybe it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things. [/quote]

That problem is unique to your son.  I know well over a dozen Walls graduates.  Zero have reported being unprepared for the highly selective colleges they attend/ed.[/quote]

Please.  Kids coming from the DC publics, no matter if Walls or Wilson (now JR), don’t know how to write at all. They are completely unprepared to write at the college level.  It’s truly pathetic. They may not admit they are struggling as compared to peers who went to hs that actually taught their students how to write a paper, but they are. [/quote]

That’s a pretty sweeping statement. How do you know all these kids?  [/quote]

Don’t even bother. There are about three people on DCUM who make it their business to trash JR and Walls and all public schools, even on the public school list, promote the idea that Harvard and Yale are the only possible options for a successful child, strike down any conversations about student employment or life experiences as pushing your child, and in general make it their business to be nasty and try to make everyone feel inferior. Just ignore them, move on and know that the other 28000 people on this list are likely more sane, just not as vocal. [/quote]

The weird part about those people is that they are either:

(1) not sending their kids to JR (or Walls) - in which case, what kind of person spends that much time and effort trolling and trashing schools from afar?
(2) Sending their kids to JR (or Walls) - in which case I'm guessing they grew up in middle class privilege (not rich, but going to school with platinum spoon rich kids and think they are the same), can't afford Sidwell or GDS and somehow trashing their kids' school makes them feel better about their own superiority

In either case, WTF?   [/quote]

I heard exactly what the PP said from a parent who put their kids through Wilson in the past decade and then they struggled w writing in their SLAC. It’s not made up. [/quote]

I think writing instruction is weak at very large public high schools. I hear similar complaints from friends with kids in Moco. Teaching writing is very labor intensive and time consuming on the part of the teacher, and nearly impossible with 100 students per teacher. [/quote]

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