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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people who say top performing kids at Wilson struggle in college are just trying to feel better about having spent a lot to send their kids to private or moved out the city... just not true. Lots of kids at Wilson from families with parents who are just many of those at the privates and 'top' MD and VA public schools. So few kids are also really the elite level athletes talked about on DCUM - but another way to self justify why their kid didn't get into the school they thought they paid for through private school.  Putting down Wilson seems like a fun sport for those folks... [/quote]

Granted, this is from 2012, but I remember it when it ran and think of it reading this thread. I'm not all that certain how much DCPS curriculum has strengthened since then:

"I went to some of D.C.’s best schools. I was still unprepared for college."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-went-to-one-of-dcs-best-high-schools-i-was-still-unprepared-for-college/2012/04/13/gIQAqQQAFT_story.html?utm_term=.23cb6c9c9ac4

https://ggwash.org/view/12881/graduate-of-dc-schools-says-he-wasnt-prepared-for-college
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Cesar Chavez is not SWW, Banneker, Latin or BASIS.[/quote]

+1. I have said for years that Cesar Chavez Parkside kids are some of the most well-behaved students I've encountered. But top DC school? Has it ever made Tier 1? I've never heard it mentioned as a top school.

I attended SWW and my SWW/Banneker friends found college to be more of the same. The few courses that I struggled in were due to poor scheduling not rigor. For example, I quickly learned that 730am classes were not a good fit for me. I attended a poor DCPS MS and the adjustment to SWW was where I struggled.[/quote]

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