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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope one of the many families screwed over by this subjective, opaque process will file a lawsuit. Our 4.0 kid didn't get an interview offer. Asked her ELA and math teachers to write recommendation letters 6 weeks before they were due. Thankfully, the ELA teacher submitted his letter right before he left the school midyear. The math teacher dragged her feet and was pissy about the obligation (imposed on families, not by families!), and submitted the letter a few hours before the deadline. Then it was announced this week that the math teacher is leaving DCPS, a plan that had been known by the principal for weeks. So I'm guessing the teacher's letters were pretty craptastic. Whatever. We're fine with our HS choices but the way SWW handles their admissions process should be legally scrutinized. [/quote]

The assumptions being made about teachers are terrible.  My kid also had a recommendation letter submitted on the day of the deadline but was invited to interview. It’s fine to question the process, but stop looking for  a scapegoat (esp if you are supposedly fine with your HS choices). [/quote]

Not an assumption. The teacher was very open about not having a submitted a letter by the deadline. They did eventually submit one but SWW appears not have have considered it because it was submitted late, after the first round of interviews took place but not before the second round.

I do not blame the teacher here. I blame Walls. They refused to tell me the deadline when I asked so I could stay on top of it. Would have been a really easy fix but they want to keep everything secret and hide their process and criteria.

It’s also unclear [b]why some students with missing recommendation letters were contacted and given an extension and others were not[/b] How did Walls decide which select students would get an extension and which would not? And why were they selective about who they contacted and who they didn’t? That’s a failure on their part. And possibly discriminatory. [/quote]

Just to be clear, the extension given for the recommendation (in our case) was before the first round of interviews took place (Feb. 22). So Walls had likely already calculated your child’s score by the time the teacher submitted the recommendation between the first and second round of interviews. [/quote]

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