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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^You're being harsh and the obsenities aren't needed.  This PP makes a good point.  We pulled our middle schooler grader out of 2 Rivers for a private, although it was a friendly, happy school, because of the lack of ability grouping.  We were concerned that he was not on track to be admitted either to the Ivies one of us attended for undergrad and grad school or the military academy the other attended.  Our younger child is at a language immersion school and we' are also concerned about open lottery admissions at DCI.  If you aren't concerned, great, but other parents are, and invalidating their concerns isn't reasonable.

One of our best friends is a teacher at Latin.  She talks openly about problems associated with putting low-performing and high-performing kids into the same classrooms (Latin only differentiates for 8th grade algebra in MS).  She doesn't think that Latin's HS is on the road to "launching Ivy League careers" because that's not the orientation of the school.  The administrators, guidance counselors (the most senior of whom is a Mt. Holyoke grad) and teachers aspire to see graduates attend small liberal arts colleges (e.g. Hamilton), not Ivies, top technical schools like MIT and CalTech, or military academies.  Will Basis DC be different?  Who knows.

Unfortunately, SWW and Wilson aren't as different from Latin as we'd like.  We'd love to see one high-powered public HS in the city emerge.  Will DCI be it?  Hard to imagine open lottery admissions doing the trick. [/quote]

Latin tests for math when a student enters the school and offers Algebra in 7th grade.  Kids are offered electives.  The kids who need extra help are given it during electives, other kids do enrichment activities.  Latin also has summer school for kids who need extra help.  Perfect, no, but my child is working about two years above where I worked at the same age (I base this on the books he is assigned and the amount of writing required, as well as math).  My child has the grades to apply to SWW, but we will probably stay for HS (we went to ivies and are optimistic that our child will as well if that is what he wants).    Every HS parent I have met thinks highly of the college counselor.

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