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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]I believe it. Top privates care about results vs. equity.[/quote]

Oh right, I’m sure they let the kids sink or swim when it comes to college admissions.

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Probably not an issue because of the the clear high expectations.

Not a "F" = 63%, no work "WS" = 50%, "tardy" is actually 5 minutes after the tardy bell, and any missing assignment must be allowed to be completed at any time with an 8% max deduction. [/quote]

yup.  My kid goes to a "big3" private that starts at 8am.  If you walk into the kid's ELA class a minute late on a day that an assignment is due, it is dropped by 5%. 
8:01 arrival?  That 90% is now an 85%. It took my kid one paper to start arriving to school by 7:50 (to allow a buffer zone for whatever might come up). [/quote]

But the earlier point was that you’re paying for what you want to be a leg up for a kid at a big three and then get upset that any kids at JR get into good colleges or believe they shouldn’t because they’ve had what your view as an inferior education and throw around claims that kids at JR aren’t prepared for college (with “prepared” being what the big three has sold parents as “the best”) when you really don’t know but you want to feel that your “superior” (bought and paid for) experience essential means your kids are the only ones worthy of select colleges. [/quote]

Let’s be truthful here.  The kids at JR now getting into top colleges, [b]parents have been supplementing a lot most of the way thru DCPS from middle school and up[/b].

The Deal/JR great days are gone.  It’s gone downhill since the honors for all.  Many families with top students are abandoning ship much earlier or who would not in the past.[/quote]

We have two strong students at JR. What counts as supplementing? The only thing we’ve done is gotten a tutor when a kid has struggled with a subject (math), which has happened maybe twice in the last six years. I assume people in private school do the same.

But if you mean we have to teach our kids things they aren’t learning in school, we’ve never done that. And I don’t think I know anyone who does? Most of the parents at JR seem pretty hands off.[/quote]

It’s obvious you have a false sense of security.  [b]Massive grade inflation and everyone gets A’s. Classes are way too easy until you get to AP and even those classes are not too rigorous when over 1/2 the kids at the school can’t even get a 3 on the exam.[/b]

Above is not specific to JR.  It’s a systemic problem in DCPS.[/quote]

Do I? According to JR’s class of 2022 profile, only 26 students (5.6%) had an unweighted 4.0. There were 93 AP Scholars, 42 AP Scholars with Honors, and 99 Scholars with Distinction. Seems like these talking points are BS.[/quote]

To be fair, about a quarter of the class had GPAs between 3.5 and 3.99 (unweighted). So there seems to be an abundance of As, but nowhere near "massive grade inflation".[/quote]

How many weighted GPAs above 4.0?[/quote]

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