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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I don’t know if it is helpful but have you seen the list of where APS students applied to college and where they were accepted? Any lack of academic rigor doesn’t seem to have stopped them from getting into good schools, as a whole.

I know there is value in private school and I wouldn’t hesitate to make the financial sacrifice to go private if I thought they needed it, but right now APS is good enough for my kids. [/quote]

Heres’ the thing, I went to a crappy high school and then on to the Ivy League, and that was a miserable experience.  I almost flunked out.

College and career prep really starts in high school, its very cumulative, and if you start building a deficit early, eventually our kids have to make up that gap, and I would rather they do it when life is easier in high school (while we manage the day to day of living like grocery shopping) then when they dump into the deep end at college.

For so many of my classmates, college was a breeze because it was almost remedial, they had AP credits to skip entire semesters of core classes, it was just a great experience and they keep high grades throughout which then led to premier professional schools and careers.[/quote]

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