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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The crazy thing is that bottom of the class are sometimes former high A public school students.  I know 2 of them.  Straight high As in DPCS middle school.  Very bright kids. Transfered to a Big3 in high school and got a C freshman year foreign language (because foreign language background was horrible in DCPS) and a B or B+ every year since in English and/or foreign language and now they're in the bottom of the class. 
 
In retrospect these particular kids would have done much better staying in public.  [/quote]

Do you hear yourself?  These particular kids would become adults who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag if they had stayed at JR or SWW.  By your own description.

How is that "much better," exactly? [/quote]

My J-R grad is at an Ivy double majoring in History and English. And has a 3.95 GPA.  So, um, they are apparently writing themselves just fine out of your proverbial bag.[/quote]

How is this possible?  Did he teach himself to write at home?  I"m genuinely curious.  My kids came out of Deal and were barely able to write a coherent 5 paragraph essay despite having high As in ELA at Deal. They went on to a Big3 private and struggled mightily with the writing that was required of them.  They both got Bs the first semester.  Some Deal classmates got Cs and then Bs the entire way through.  [/quote]

They didn't learn anything at Deal but J-R (then Wilson) was a different story.  AP classes- particularly the history ones- were rigorous and they worked on the Beacon (the school newspaper) all four years.  I'm not saying it was the same as if they had gone to Maret or Sidwell, but it did the trick.[/quote]

DP: My oldest barely had writing required in AP classes at J-R. How long ago was this and did they really learn to write in a Wilson AP class? Please be honest if you sent them to Writopia or something. Congrats on your kid doing so well, writing for the Beacon is a great help, but the kids I know who did so were already naturally good writers with parents who are writers -- no one in DCPS taught them.[/quote]

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