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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Word for incoming Walls students.  Walls is a decent school.  As the parent of a current student, I will say, the almost uniformly high-achieving student body is an incredible asset - dare I say, the best thing about the school (and this is HUGE!).  But I am so unimpressed by what DCPS does to educate this amazing cohort.  You have this incredibly smart, interested group of kids, who for the most part all want to learn and comply and do the work .. . but as far as the school goes, about 50% of the teachers are REALLY BAD.  My kid is actually pretty good at "humanities" type stuff.  (in middle school, teachers would read kid's creative writing to other classes as an example of "this is how to do it.").  But since being at Walls, kid has decided they "hate" humanities-type classes (e.g., English, History, language).  Why?  Because the teachers of those classes at Walls have been awful: Uninspired.  Mean.  Spiteful. Petty.  I see the "curriculum"/assignments, and I hear the "feedback" given by teachers - SO BAD.  SO UNIMPRESSIVE.

This is embarrassing DCPS, do better!  I am still fine with choice/kid being at Walls.  Kid is happy and has lots of friends and scores well on standardized tests (despite lackluster teaching in English/etc.).  Kid is super smart and excelling (kicking ass in math - yay the math teachers at Walls are good, phew).  But I am so irritated/borderline angry that Walls has managed to convince my very talented writer/student that they hate English/History/Humanities.  I hope that someday (yes, even in high school) kid has an inspiring teacher in that area.

In sum, my kid is smart and appears poised to crush standardized tests/get straight A's so I suppose should do quite well in college apps in the next year. But I am still complaining because Walls has managed to suck the life/interest/fun out of humanities coursework for my kid.  This makes me mad because, duh, this stuff (history!  good novels!) is super fun/interesting/fascinating!  So annoying that Walls has ruined it (so far) for my kid.
Saturday night rant over.[/quote]

Wait until senior year and AP Lit when your kid will have to make influencer-like videos and cook a dish as their final project. It’s ridiculous![/quote]

Prospective parents here. My DC would be thrilled for such a class. There is so much history connecting food themes with literature across the centuries and making a dish while giving it a context would certainly communicate the material, teach, and engage the audience about literature in a very creative way. [/quote]

OK, but they already did that assignment ... in 5th grade.[/quote]

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