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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks. OP here. Central VA. My goal isn't UVA. I'd actually like my kid to get out Virginia for college. But they are really into technology. For the people saying Wakefield sucks, is that the AP classes too?[/quote] We live in 22202 and have a sophomore at Wakefield. There are strong AP/intensified classes and they also offer the AP Capstone. Our child is a high performing/motivated student and has found a solid group of peers there. The culture is "you do you" and not as focused on status or material items as you may find elsewhere. We are very happy there. We know multiple students from Wakefield who are ar UVA, William & Mary and strong out of state schools. If you are looking for a sense of community w/o a culture of "keeping up with the Joneses" definitely consider 22202. Walkable community, easy access to public transportation and downtown DC. Please ignore the Wakefield haters. [/quote] I am the PP and this the complete and utter BS we bought into First there is the rare student from Wakefield who goes to these good schools and believe me they must have a lot of outside tutoring. The AP classes suck and my child has been in 3 so far. They involved almost no writing and if my child hadn’t spent hours studying on their own they would have never done well on the exam. The work is by no means rigorous but is a bunch of busy work consisting of cheesy worksheets that require simple one or two sentence answers. If a kid only did the assigned work in the class, they would never do well on the exam. There is no barrier to entry to intensified or AP classes and even if a student is failing they won’t tell them to drop down to the more appropriate level in the name of equity or some nonsense like that. Bette the kids fails and they talk about how many minority kids take AP classes My child’s entire freshman year they never wrote a single essay not in any intensified courses and not in Ap classes. We pay for a private writing tutor who is shocked by how little writing my child does for their classes. It’s mostly fill in the blank worksheets. Even if a kid manages to get into a competitive college I can’t even imagine the steep and terrible learning curve they have that first year adjusting to learning to write a simple paper. Lastly that attitude this poster is talking about - not caring about status and so on is true but that’s because the overwhelming majority of the kids are low income and it’s not because they are such cool laid back work people. I guess the pp thinks that poverty is cool or something [/quote]
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