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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The challenge with basing so much of the score on teacher recommendations is that at small schools, if there happens to be a new, young, immature and possibly catty teacher who doesn't understand the importance of those reccs. [b]they can create a situation where no students get in to SWW even though in past years, many students from the school got in each year.  This happened at my kid's middle school last year.[/b]

i won't name names, but it does indeed seem capricious and possibly unfair to base admission on something as subjective as a whether a teacher likes a student or not.  I can tell you that I found both the newly hired middle school director and the English teacher to be petty women i had no desire to have coffee with much less decide whether or not my kid should attend a high school.  Staffing changes can have a major impact on a school, and especially in the 8th grade on a kid's chance at getting into high school.  Another reason not to ever count on getting into a school.
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My kid's small middle school had something similar, but not quite as dramatic, happen. In past years, it had been punching way above its weight in terms of getting kids into Walls--the current 12th SWW grade class (which my DC is in) has 8 kids from a class of 40 8th graders (3.5 years ago, obv)--and this year's 9th grade SWW class has just 3. So it's not zero, and it may not even be a statistically significant change given the small numbers we're talking about, but if it's happening to more than one school, it does seem more likely to be a real trend. And yes, seems like one teacher can ruin an entire class's chances. It's unfortunate.[/quote]

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