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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They say it at the Open House. You can also call the ADW and ask the person in charge of children with learning differences and she will tell you outright - do not go to Gonzaga.

[quote=Anonymous]I've searched the Gonzaga website in vain that loud and proud proclamation of "sink or swim," but I did come across this nugget:

At Gonzaga College High School, it is not enough for us to simply teach students what they will need to be successful in college and beyond. It is not enough for us to develop students’ athletic and extracurricular abilities to their fullest. To be faithful to the tradition of St. Ignatius, we must do this and much more. For an education to be truly “Jesuit,” we must help our students encounter, engage, and reflect upon their world in a way that helps them see the underlying presence of Christ who loves them personally, calls them individually, and who invites them to labor by his side in his plan of salvation. For an education to be truly Jesuit, it must always point in some meaningful way to the ongoing presence of Christ in our world. This is the mission of Jesuit education. This is the spirit of Gonzaga College High School.[/quote][/quote]

I see.  Gonzaga contradicts its website by proudly proclaiming that it's sink or swim at the open house?   Maybe they just didn't want your DS to apply?[/quote]

Well PP settled it, obviously. Some random poster can claim they thought they heard something at an open house who-knows-how-long-ago, and we must accept it as proof that the school lies in its mission statement. The school lies, I tell you.

I don't know what Gonzaga's policy towards learning differences is (don't have a kid there), but a number of area schools will tell LD kids not to apply. It has nothing to do with sink or swim. It's because they don't have specialists to serve  these kids.[/quote]

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