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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're so right.  I feel terrible for colleges like Columbia, Penn, Barnard, Smith, Wesleyan, Middlebury, NYU, GWU, Sewanee, & Skidmore, who are stuck educating last year's graduates of the "dysfunctional" TC Williams.  And poor Duke, Bucknell, UNC Chapel Hill & Penn State (saddled with 2 TC grads each!).  Not to mention UVA (18), VTech (13), William & Mary (3), JMU (4), GMU (15), VCU (10).  Whatever will they do with so many terrible students from this dysfunctional school????

Okay, I get that you're more comfortable with a school where only 8% or 13% of the kids are economically disadvantaged (McLean &  Yorktown, respectively), instead of the 58% at TC Williams.  But don't pretend that you left b/c your kids could not get a good education there.    [/quote]

But did these students get into these schools [i]because [/i]of TC Williams or [i]in spite [/i]of TC Williams?  Would the student who went to Penn State gone to Penn if he had gone to McLean High School instead of TC?  Would more students have gotten into these good schools if they were educated elsewhere?  We really don't know the answers to these questions.  I don't live in Alexandria (or McLean for that matter), so I don't have a dog in this fight.  But, my point is that showing that some students got into good schools from TC does not prove that the school is good.  Just like showing that some kids fail from this school does not prove that it's bad.  There is no way to know in advance how one's daughter or son will fare whether they go to TC or Langley or Robinson.  Most people, however feel that they have a better chance to succeed where they are surrounded by other like students who want to succeed.  [/quote]

They may have got in because of TC - hard to know - but I do know that at least up until a few years ago, TC said they offered every AP course.  So if that is still true then students could take all AP course in all subjects they wanted and not be constrained like other schools who may not offer every course.

It's no secret that white, bright students are kept well segregated from the masses at TC.  If they did the same for middle school, more parents would stay put.[/quote]

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