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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Below is updated list then for those interested.

- No full courses of AP science classes every year - this is accurate
- No science labs - this is accurate
- No math classes after Calculus - this is accurate
- No STEM elective classes - coding class
- No computer science - accurate.
- No robotics team- not accurate. It exists just not very good. 
- No STEM clubs- they have science Olympiad
- No school STEM internship opportunities- accurate.
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Cool.  Why are you interested in Walls vs McKinley?

Is it your desire to be right? Is it needing validation of a label?[/quote]

Why are you so triggered?  It’s helpful info to families as a number of posters have said on this thread.

Info and transparency is a good thing [/quote]

DP - Because the poster seems more driven to make some inscrutable point than to provide info and transparency.

Walls has Multivariate Calc and AP Statistics?  Do those count as classes "after calculus"? Is that different than other schools?  Beats me.

Walls has other relevant electives, especially if you are looking for STEAM, such as graphic design and imaging.  Those classes are on the course list, if the poster above would bother to look.

Why does the poster deem Walls robotics club "not very good"?

Why does the poster keep mentioning just one relevant club when at least three others have been mentioned up thread?

Who knows what her agenda is.[/quote]

+1. It's especially weird because, while there are other DC public/charter schools which are for sure better on some of these, none of them checks all of the boxes in a way that would apparently satisfy this person. If the case you want to make is that you need to get out of DC because your kid needs linear algebra in high school (and not from a dual enrollment program), knock yourself out, but that's not specific to SWW. [/quote]

This person has been on multiple threads spouting the same thing over and over. From what I can tell they want us all to "demand better" from DCPS. They refuse to accept that other people have different priorities and will characterize any deviation from their ideal as either ignorance or lack of care.[/quote]

Omg is this the Stuart hobson admin posting again?  I’m excited to hear how you decide which “other priorities” you are focusing on. Because your school is letting down all students. [/quote]

Nope, DP. But you are a very rigid thinker who doesn't seem to understand that you're not going to build a coalition by exaggerating and insulting anyone who doesn't 100% agree with everything you say.[/quote]

Sorry how is it rigid to want kids to be at grade level? And I doubt it’s a different poster. [/quote]

Your goal posts for "grade level" and "STEM offerings" change every single time someone points out what's actually available.[/quote]

That prior post was a parent saying they didn’t want to send their kid to their IB middle bc cape scores showed that 70% of kids at Hobson were below grade level at math and 4% were above. A school administrator or teacher explained that some kids take the cape above their grade. He had detailed hard numbers. It seems that 11% of the kids at Hobson are above grade level and 70% are below grade level.    [/quote]

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