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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question was posed hours ago, but still no response:what poor life decisions lead to the embarrassment of having kids at Wakefield or worse still, Kenmore?? Matriculation from a second-rate university? Lack of drive? Divorce? Stupidity? Savvy real estate investing? Can someone explain? [/quote]

Why do you believe that it is a mistake for people to send their kids to Wakefield or Kenmore? What is wrong with Wakefield and Kenmore?[/quote]

You have never been to Kenmore or WF or you wouldn't be asking this question. Go visit and then see if you still have this question. [/quote]

Kenmore looks great.[/quote]

Kenmore is a palace and has an awesome arts focus. [/quote]

Is the middle-school arts focus on reason why the high school students at Wakefield do so poorly on tests designed to measure math, reading and writing skills?[/quote]

Not sure. Will have to ask the neighbor kids ( Wakefield grads) when they are home on break from Duke, Smith, and UVA. :wink: [/quote]

That is not the norm for kids coming out of Wakefield.  The reality is somewhere between the crazy poster who keeps asking about what mistakes result in your child being at Wakefield and the posters who insist that Wakefield is just as good as any more highly regarded school, despite test scores showing otherwise.  The latter group always parades the exceptions who get into highly regarded colleges as if they are the norm.  The reality is that (1) many successful people send their kids to Wakefield and (2) higher SES white and Asian kids at Wakefield as a whole underperform their counterparts at schools like Yorktown.  [/quote]

Do you understand that kids get into college based on their individual performance and qualifications, not the average of their high school? What difference does it make to me what the average is, if my kid is substantially above average and well-prepared for college based on both what APS offers and what enrichment is provided in the summers and outside of school (which we would we doing whether or not we were at Wakefield, Yorktown, H-B.....).

I guess I don't have this weirdly myopic view of what it takes to get into a top college (or be prepared for life, as it were) because I didn't grow up here. I grew up somewhere where most people went to state school and I was one of very few kids with a view towards a competitive college. I just don't see the school environment as the biggest factor--I see internal drive as being more important and, in the long run, more valuable anyhow. (Avoiding the "excellent sheep" problem.) But whatever, to each his own. [/quote]

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