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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you’re from DC or the northeast, so you still find Chicago to be a great city? Do you find New Trier and the Glenbrooks to truly be on par with TJ or Stuyvesant for example, or are they just top schools for Illinois (which has terrible schools overall)? What would be the DC/NOVA/MD equivalent to Maine South?

I’m asking because all I hear is about how pressure cooker NT is, but my experience in Illinois so far is that these [b]are not the sharpest people I’ve met around[/b]. I’m wondering if New Trier families and students have a lot of wealth but in terms of education are more on par with say Marshall or Wilson High rather than Langley. [/quote]

Please don't compare. They are sharp for their area.[/quote]

This poster is out of his mind.  There is no non-magnet public school anywhere near the quality of New Trier.  Now, to be clear, there is no diversity to speak of at North Shore schools but they are excellent.

I went to a competitor of New Trier and the education was fantastic.  We had people going everywhere the DCUM crowd likes, except substitute Illinois or Purdue for Maryland. Again no diversity though. [/quote]

Not much intellectual curiosity and not politically informed. But I guess you can’t expect people to car about politics and news to the extent they do in DC. One interesting thing is only about 1-2 people per year in Illinois asked me about what I do for work. Pretty much 100% of people I meet in DC ask what I do for work. [/quote]

You are out of your mind.  New Trier, Stevenson, Deerfield, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Barrington and a number of schools in DuPage are better than the non-magnet public schools in the DMV area.  Heck, I was a good but not great student (from Deerfield) and went to two top ten schools that DCUM'ers drool over.  There is no diversity though at these schools.  I was incredibly well prepared for college and professional school, did very very well and as the rare poor kid from my high school, found the high school the key to social mobility.  Great for athletics too - team and individual state champion.   My twin was a professor at UVA and then a giant in finance. You could not last three minutes with him intellectually, and his penchant for intellectual inquiry was like our classmates off the charts. His Phd thesis was on game theory and he attributed his performance to our midwest high school.

The real problem is with the rest of the non-performing schools in the state.

Politics in Illinois are toxic.  A one party state with more debt per capita (by far) than any other state.  Chicago is even worse ($54 billion in pension debt alone).  People do not like talking about it because it is so depressing.  Illinois is losing talent - 50 percent of college students leave the State and upper middle income people are leaving too.  So yes politics are not discussed as often but not for the reasons you think.  There is a guy on YouTube called Chris Harden who does video tours and he has an extensive collection of visits too Chicago and a number of cities,  It is depressing as can be to watch - some of it is due to a failure to respond to international competition but an equal dose belongs to politics. Taxes are suffocating. If you are talking about the people from these areas, perhaps your Hunger Games stereotypes hold some water.  But certainly not in the better school districts.  [/quote]

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