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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s only “great” as compared to the other DCPS high schools.  And with a cherry-picked cohort of on-grade, motivated kids it should be the best HS in DC. But, it would really only be considered[b] a normal, average school in most upper middle class suburbs[/b].  [/quote]

I don't think this is true - your "normal, average" school, even in an upper middle class suburb, is going to have plenty of not particularly bright and/or disruptive kids.  Walls biggest strength is the (almost) uniformly high-achieving cohort.  The disruptive kids have been (for the most part) weeded out (I think disruptive kids have a hard time achieving a 3.9 GPA (application cut off last year) in middle school, even if they are super bright).  So Walls is chock full of high-achieving kids who want to get straight As and who toe the line, for the most part.  Probably why lots of teachers want to teach there. [/quote]

I’ve taught at “normal, average” schools in suburbs.  They aren’t all Potomac.  Lots of disruptive kids, kids who are absent a lot, don’t care about school.  The difference is at many of those schools they offer honors or AP classes so those kids are all grouped in the nonhonors classes.[/quote]

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