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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Save us your paternalistic BS[b]. Families of enrolled students mold a school culture. [/b]

The brightest kids at Latin just aren't challenged in the program as they would be in a suburban public GT program in this Metro area, not even close. The dirty little secret about Latin is that some of the families have always supplemented quite a bit. Latin families quietly pay for Johns Hopkins CTY (academic year program and/or summer programs), Mathnasium, language immersion camps and so forth. The kids involved have the ability and drive to learn far more than they're being taught, all the way from 5th to 12th.[/quote]

Will correct you here as this is completely false in educational settings. If the particular students are molding school culture, it’s not being done well. School culture is intentional—created and maintained by the people in charge through their values and focus and communications.  I’ve been involved in dozens of schools and have seen this in action ( and inaction ).

Don’t believe me? Here’s your lauded Harvard explaining it to you:

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/18/07/what-makes-good-school-culture[/quote]

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