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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools like GDS are filled with competitive and ambitious kids that are mostly aiming for T10 schools. Over their 4 years of high school, most will realize they don't have the grades or accomplishments to land them a spot at one of those schools. This can trigger feelings of shame, anxiety, or embarrassment.

Public school kids, however, are mostly not trying to get into a top college and their peers will not judge them for their rejections. At JRHS, there's no shame in ending up at Clemson, Alabama, or Tulane. [/quote]

Well the second paragraph is wrong.  Spoiler alert: high achieving public school kids are ambitious.  The first comment in this thread is correct, public school kids just didn’t spend a bunch of money to get in to a top school.  [/quote]

My kids have all gone to Jackson-Reed and trust me there is a whole cohort of extremely smart, competitive and motivated students there.  A lot of chose to send our kids there for many reasons - true diversity, a school where they have to learn to advocated for themselves but also a school where there is always a niche for them, so many opportunities in terms of math, science, engineering, and other academies not to mention tons of extracurriculars and sports.  Though it is wicked hard to make the Varsity teams as there are too many kids.

My kids and their friends have all openly talked scores, grades where they are applying and where they get in.  They are also smart enough to know how a hook works and not to get too upset and not getting into an elite school.  Many of them are so used to big schools, they want to go to even bigger schools.  There are also a lot of STEM kids and the opportunities are often better at the big publics. [/quote]

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