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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey, the reason people pick public schools coming out of Burgundy is because they are hard core Dems. Private Highschool for the most part is the home of the conservative Right, at least in the DMV... No Quaker schools... So those that are Dems will opt to send their Burgundy kids to public, where they tend to dominate academically and exceed socially... [/quote]

Not from what I saw, and I'm no Burgundy fan.  Some private HS in the area really aren't terribly leftie.  Beyond that, a number of the Burgundy kids did extremely well in public high schools.  But looked to me like many simply flopped, wound up in alternative programs, weren't college-bound (or at least traditional college-bound), etc.  I think it can be difficult to categorize Burgundy purely by politics; the entire program seemed to be such an alternative program, so completely alien to anything educational, that the results always seemed to me to be disuniform and very much hit-or-miss.  I remember one year when a good 1/5 of the graduating class was revealed to have not enrolled in college, or enrolled only at two-year programs, or taken gap years with no pre-granted admission reported anywhere.

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This is both silly and false. Anyone interested can ask Burgundy to provide the high school and college destinations of kids who have graduated in the last 4-10 years. The picture painted by quote above is simply false. Anyone interested in Burgundy should ask the school for this information, not rely on an anonymous poster.

Separate question whether Burgundy kids do well -- as most of them in fact do-- b/c of the school or b/c they're bright kids to start with. Unclear, but doing well is doing well, so if you have a bright kid there's no reason to stay away from Burgundy.[/quote]

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