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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A fine education means that you’ll have a decent selection of advanced and specialized courses.  But not as many as the other schools because there are MORE advanced/highly motivated kids enrolling in those courses at WL and Yorktown.  That’s not implying anything about anyone at Wakefield. That’s just a fact.  Plenty of very smart motivated kids of all backgrounds at Wakefield. But fewer than the other two schools. Because of poverty and more recent immigration and also just the more chill perspective of parents who chose to live in S. Arl.  That’s just reality. I agree it’s and product of Arlington’s housing policies. [/quote]

Oh my. What "advanced and specialized courses" are offered at other APS high schools that aren't offered at Wakefield? Or do you mean there aren't as many sections of AP classes at Wakefield? I'm genuinely curious. I am a Wakefield parent and am aware of only one AP class within the past few years that didn't make minimum enrollment. It was Physics C, which I believe is Calculus-based versus the other AP Physics class. Students were offered a dual enrollment option instead of the AP class running at Wakefield.

The suggestion here that Wakefield doesn't provide similar AP classes offerings to other APS high schools doesn't match our students' experience at all. The AP Capstone program and the Spanish immersion program mean that a Wakefield student's AP experiences may differ slightly than students at other APS high schools.

We aren't aware of any AP classes that "often don't run" at Wakefield. My students are on track to graduate with 10-12 AP classes, and that's typical for their peers and the other Wakefield students we know.  [/quote]

Thank you! It is helpful to hear from a Wakefield parent vs other people speculating. [/quote]

Ditto the thank you. I'm a WHS parent of two. One who is what the PPP would consider not highly-motivated, despite being very bright and highly capable - just not "scholarly"; and the other who is what I will presume the PPP would consider merely "a motivated good student" getting almost straight A's taking intensified and selective AP courses according to their interests, personal goals, and self-determined desired level of stress and time management, while devoting a lot of time and energy to leadership roles and extracurricular opportunities in their chosen activities. One will pursue what PPP might classify as an inferior - or less ambitious/less motivated - college pathway. The other will probably end up applying to a number of what PPP might classify as "fine" middle ground colleges, not being even interested in excessively expensive ivies or other 'elite' institutions.

I think people have different visions and definitions of "highly motivated." I would differentiate ambition from motivation. Of course, ambition can be relative to individual situations, too.

BTW, YHS is to begin offering the AP Capstone program that has been in place at Wakefield for years.[/quote]

May I ask how the Capstone program is relevant if it is only for 15 out of 2300+ students?[/quote]

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