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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, where do you plan to send your A student for a more academically rigorous environment than St. Albans for high school?  That is what I am looking for for my A student son, as well (who is not at STA, but we were considering applying).  Getting so many mixed messages here about St. Albans.  Academically rigorous does not equal tons of homework.  That just breaks a kid's spirit.  I'm looking for a school that asks the kids to do a lot of writing, creative, independent, ciritical thinking -- work that encourages the kids to make the material their own rather than to memorize facts for tests and then promptly forget them.  Please share if you have selected another school for your son.  Thanks.[/quote]

Prepping him for Thomas Jefferson.

No, when I say academically rigorous definitely not talking about several hours a night of homework.      Crucial that you research STA's sophmore and junior year's curriculum, doesn't seem that independent, critical thinking skills are being sufficiently developed.   There's something really wrong when I hear more than a few times: my son is a grduating senior, yet he  struggles to write a decent essay. [/quote]

My son at STA has all the support and instruction needed to learn to write superior essays.  Writing is difficult.   The key is to pace the work.   Some teachers at NCS-STA assign /require significantly more output in the same course.   That situation should be rectified.[/quote]

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