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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walls is a mediocre public school...good for DC but nowhere near the top (or even second tier) local private schools.  Teachers are overall uninspired and unmotivated and it shows.  The administration is abysmal. If private is an option for you (and you are not morally opposed to private education, which understandably many people are), I'd say go for private.  If you are in-boundary to J-R and your kid can handle large/overcrowded chaos, I'd even consider that over Walls.  I've had two kids go through Walls and my third is at J-R and I am overall more impressed with the caliber of teaching there (though it is certainly not a top private education either).[/quote]

I think Walls’ recent Harvard grad, now Rhodes Scholar would disagree with you.  She give Walls a lot of credit in terms of her academic preparation for Harvard and beyond. However, other children may need the extra handholding that private school provides.[/quote]

She is an super impressive URM child of two highly educated academics.  She would have gone to Harvard and received the Rhodes if she had gone to Walls, JR, NCS, Sidwell, Stone Ridge, BCC, etc.  She would have rise to the top at any school.  Really. [/quote]

Complete and utter nonsense.  I’m a member of Jack and Jill, and each year there are (mostly) private high school graduates from my chapter.  Many of them are “super impressive URM child[ren] of two highly educated” and wealthy parents.  While several have attended Harvard, and other highly selective colleges, none are Rhodes Scholars.  These are graduates of the Big 3/5/10/whatever. NONE!

Also note, the Walls/Harvard/soon to be Oxford alumna often credits Walls for giving her a strong foundation.  Argue with her, not me.
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She did the GW track taking college courses while at Walls.  That is what I think prepared her well, not the upper classes at Walls which she did not take.[/quote]

She participated in the GW exposure program (one GW class per term).  She did not participate in the GW dual enrollment program, so most of her upper level classes were taken at Walls. [/quote]

Wrong. She finished all the Walls math offerings (AP calc) in 10th grade.  She took 5 math classes at GW in 11th and 12th. [/quote]

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