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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Silly question, OP.  Do you really think any high school is responsible for shaping your dc's identity?  Or strength of conviction?  I think you may be expecting more than the school can deliver.[/quote]

You have turned my question on its head for arguments sake and that isn't really constructive, is it? No, of course, I don't think that the school is SOLELY responsible for shaping a teens identity or strength of conviction.One must do the work on that oneself. That is the point. I do , however,hope to enroll my DC in a school that will give him ample encouragement to find out what his strengths are and not JUST relative to everyone else in his class.It is hard to pull that out of a curriculum brochure, so I am posing the question to parents who have teens in these schools. I am am asking the question on an anonymous forum in the hopes people will be honest . I am only asking for positive comments,not negative, No interest in slamming a school here.

Do you have a teen in these schools? If not, why did you respond? I am posting to try to get a sense from other parents who have teens in these schools. imho, there should be no looking around end of senior year and worrying about how you look compared to so and so. Who cares, right? There are a million ways a school can educate you so that you do not end up like that.One is independent study. To paraphrase from long distance running: you are only racing against yourself.The student I mentioned was more concerned with what people in his school would think about his college choice than he was in choosing  to go somewhere right for him.That is like being afraid to marry someone because , although she makes you happy and you love her, WHAT will people think? Yikes. My concern is that  that type of conformity may be prevalent in some schools, so prevalent that it was given by the student to their parent as a legit reason to actually not apply to a prospective school.If that is the real deal , I 'd like to avoid it for my DC.[/quote]

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