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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]11What make syou think " bottom half student" indicates C's. My DS attends another school , and just about his entire class gets all A's''

I'm a Sidwell parent. A very, very small group of kids have all As.  Kids in the bottom half of the class usually still have very strong SAT scores. I think I read somewhere on this site that Sidwell averages 700 on SAT scores. That seems relatively accurate from what I have seen. [/quote]

Another Sidwell parent here -- can I ask what you're basing this on?  I know the kids claim to know what everyone else scored, but do you really think those reports are credible beyond your child's circle of very close friends?  I sure don't.  [/quote]

I can see the reason for the confusion R/T my post. DS does not go to Sidwell, but another NW DC Independant school, where I said the average kid is an "A" student. There is no grade inflation at my DS's school. What I am saying is that, if you took 70% of the kids at DS's school and put them at any other school they would be in the top 10% of the class in terms of academic achievement. As an adult who went to public school where there was a broad range, its kind of obvious that DS's class is not an "average" group of kids. All you have to do is host a play date, its obvious .  In short, its a fast crowd. Its like if you took the top kids from every local school around and sent them all to one school, then re-adjusted the curriculum so that you teach to that top 10% because that is the new "middle". Everyone is an A student. Its like giving the teachers all honors kids to work with and nothing else.

There are also kids there who are above average, but maybe not the CTY type. I imagine an average or just above average kid would have to work their ass off just to keep up ( this is based on my perpective as an adult who is asked to sign graded tests, essays, and , field "mom did you learn this in school " type questions. The answer is, no, not in 4th grade.

Maybe the "bottom half" of class still get s an A or two, but they work their ass off to get. Think Med school, think law school kind of working ass off, only they are 10, 11 years old. My point is, kids who get B's in such an environment are not unmotivated or as PP said, they are just in with a fast crowd and working as had as they can, and probably getting B's , once and a while an A, and the occasional C.
After a decade of that kind of applied study, any university would be lucky to have them.[/quote]

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