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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I can say is my dc, who just finishing up freshman year at DESA says 8th grade at their private school was much more rigorous. I’m a little concerned about college readiness but hoping that by sticking to honors/AP classes, dc will be ok in college.[/quote]

I am not aware of anyone that attends DESA (this is Duke Ellington...correct?) for the rigor of their academic classes or even cares much about that.  Everyone I know attends because they want to be professional actors, musicians, etc.  This is kind of an odd post.[/quote]

Not all kids go on to be artists/actors/musicians. Even if they do end up on that track, they still need to go to college, and even at an art school, you have to take academic classes (speaking as an art school graduate). That was a weird response.

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Not really a weird response.  I have one kid at SJC and the majority of the serious athletes (of which there are many) don't much care about the academics at SJC and neither do their parents...and nearly all of those kids will have to attend college.  Certainly, almost none of them chose SJC due to any serious consideration of their academics.

DESA has a much higher percentage of graduates that turn professional right after HS graduation compared to just about any school in the DMV...and the kids and the parents that I know who are serious performers (I will admit, don't know any going for visual arts) are not particularly concerned about the rigor of the academic classes.[/quote]

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