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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As many people have noted, there isn't one cause of high stress in students; there are many. This includes parents forcing their kids into schools not based on the fit, but on the fantasy that this school will be a pipeline to the Ivies. The reality is that schools like NCS exist for a very particular type of student, one that is ambitious, self-motiviated resilient, and invested in learning. Most teenagers aren't like this at all, but there are some who are. The school has had a reputation for its rigor for many decades, and this attracts many parents. However, once their kids are admitted and experience the degree of work, these same parents then complain that the school is too stressful for their children. Instead of moving their kid to another school, they expect the school to change for them. But it's that very rigor their child is struggling with that drew them to the school in the first place. Then, there are the parents who tell their kids that anything less than an A is unacceptable. I agree with people that schools such as NCS should revisit the mandatory sports requirement, especially for juniors and senior years. This would open up more time for these students.[/quote]

I don't have a girl so no first-hand experience with NCS...but what qualifies it as rigorous other than I guess the amount of homework?  NCS does not produce an inordinate number of NMSF students compared to the other privates...and nothing compared to the public magnets as a %age of the class.  I don't see any NCS kids even entering something like Regeneron, and certainly not winning.  Maybe they are entering and winning National History Day or other similar national liberal arts competitions.

To me rigorous would be something like...the school mandates that all students will start with Honors Precalc in 9th grade, so you better have been on that track already or you need to do tons of self-learning to get with the program since everyone will have to take Calc BC in 10th, etc.  Or all students will produce a junior thesis which will be original work of some kind.  Is that how NCS operates?[/quote]

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