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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for those w/kids at Banneker:

During my kid's interview, the interviewers mentioned "competition" many times over. And asked my kid if he was competitive enough to meet the school's expectations and to compete w/classmates.

No idea if that was a scare tactic or not, but it was very odd at the time and feels even stranger now.

Would love to hear current parent takes on this![/quote]

Current Banneker parent, and I've gotten no impression of competition among students. It's interesting because that was a comment emphasized to me in the interview at [i]Walls[/i] last year -- that the students are super competitive with each other, and put more pressure on each other than the school does. My Banneker student is another who wouldn't say the homework is unbearable, is not struggling at all, etc. I would guess the school wants to see that students want to put in effort; if they seem detached or uninterested in the process, that might not be "meeting expectations" of the school.  [/quote]

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