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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We also have a good PK waitlist number for SWS and I'm wondering if someone can clarify the comments about overachievers and the kind of opportunities offered to advanced learners.  I don't want my children to be drilled and killed, nor do I necessarily care about their scores on standardized tests so long as they "pass" and I know they are challenged, engaged, and learning what they need to be ready for middle school.  So that leads to my question:

After elementary we would plan to send our kids to a middle school that is on par with a Latin or a Deal.  I am assuming there are "advanced" classes in these middle schools.    Does the SWS education prepare a student to qualify for and succeed in these "advanced" classes once he/she enters middle school?

And before anyone snarks, I am not assuming at this point that my PK student is going to be an advanced learner.  I can't predict this any more than anyone else can for their child.  But if he is, I want him to be in an elementary school that will set him up to thrive in the advanced classes in middle and high school.  Is this mindset similar to the mindset of the typical SWS parent, or would we be in for culture shock?

Thanks![/quote]

Have you been to SWS? I ask that in the nicest possible way. I would guess that something like 80 percent of the parents there have advanced degrees. It isn't an extraordinarily wealthy student body but I'd say the parents there value education pretty highly.[/quote]

+1 the parents are obsessed with education, though they play it off as being very relaxed in an artsy way, per Reggio [/quote]

I'm an SWS parent and this made me LOL. It's spot-on. Oh, well. I love it.[/quote]

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