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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a child at Wilson and Walls.  Both have there pluses and minuses.  The big minus regarding Walls is the administration.  The PP said she/he finds it does not suffer from a lack of structure/organization, but I would strongly disagree.  Comparing the two schools, Wilson with over 2,000 students and Walls with under 600, it is amazing to me how much better organized Wilson is.  Even just dealing with Parent Teacher sign-up.  At Wilson you can select all classes at one time schedule each appointment and then get a confirming email with your schedule.  At Walls, you have to go into the system anew for each class and be sure to write your appointment down because there is no confirmation with times and schedule.  This is merely one example.

Back to school night is another.  Wilson had a well organized operation at which you followed your child's schedule and each teacher gave a 10 minute presentation on the class.  On the contrary, at Walls they have all humanities teachers in one room with about 100 parents and they speak generally about humanities at Walls, but nothing about an individual class.  The worst is the foreign language presentation as they have every foreign language together, which of course is completely useless.

The PP definitely got it right that the admissions process is chaos.  This is ridiculous given how long they have been doing it.  I guess that is the most frustrating part of Walls is the administration never learns from their mistakes.  Mistakes are expected, but I cannot stand seeing the same ones year after year!  It is clear that they are arrogant enough to believe that people will just overlook these stumbles and come anyway, and to an extent they are right, but it just seems so unnecessary and is a turnoff to many families.[/quote]

As another parent with experience at both schools I completely agree with PP about organization. There's no comparison between the two. Wilson is far more organized. There are pros and cons to each but there is no excuse for the lack of organization at SWW. It might be fine freshman year but by the time your DC is a senior it can be quite exasperating. [/quote]

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