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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ NP. I am guessing that the Big 3 kids in your classes were not the ones in the top of the class at their Big 3s, but the W kids were probably at the top of class or closer to it.  So you are not comparing the same tier of kids.  I have kids who have attended public and Big 3, and am very confident that the top 50% at the Big 3 are at least as strong academically as the top 15-20% at a W school (and we are in a W district).[/quote]

I doubt it. I don't want to out myself on this board, but there's no way a student not in the top of their class got into the school I teach at. We live in the DC area, I "super commute" when I am teaching in person bc my spouse works in this area. My kids go to a Big 3 but I'm thinking strongly of pulling them before MS.

It's not at all fabrication, but you believe what you want.[/quote]

I have a kid at each.  The top students at both Big 3 schools and a school like Whitman are all very bright and hard working. But public school kids often have more grit. 
Private school parents love to put down the public schools, saying they can retake tests and have rampant grade inflation.  The retaking tests is in MS. My kid at Whitman has never been allowed to retake a test. And there is grade inflation, which hurts the top students somewhat. But it is actually very rare for kids to graduate with a perfect 4.0 unweighted. The teacher and classes are tough. And there is not the hand holding that you get in private school. It’s more sink or swim. [/quote]

That is nice. I bet those wealthy Bethesda kids at Whitman are actually tough and oh so gritty after growing up there. As for handholding: there is good teaching and access to teachers at our school but no handholding for my kid.[/quote]

Don’t be so quick to judge. I’m sure kids from Whitman are writing their college application essays on the incredibly rough childhood they had growing up in the upper 1%. [/quote]

Exactly. What a joke. The helicopter moms in Bethesda are intense too—those kids are not fighting it out alone on the mean suburban streets.[/quote]

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