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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is one of the main reason parents pay for private school. They will make sure your child has every EC opportunity. That plus grade inflation + poetic recommendations = T20 admissions.[/quote]

We need regular sized public schools.   500-750 students.   Insane we've let these massive schools be developed!

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A public high school with 500 students would be very poor by school standards. Even in a reasonably UMC suburb. You're looking at really minimal AP options  and an almost non-existent sports infrastructure. The only way you can find successful publics at this size is in big cities where you have magnet schools. Like School Without Walls in DC is around 600 students I think. But that's because the school is essentially just a G&T program for the district housed in a separate school. It's not at the top of a high school pyramid with elementary and middle schools feeding into it. It can offer higher level programming because they've selected only students who can handle it, which means they don't have to offer remedial or even standard programming. And even Walls has pretty minimal sports and EC offerings for a high school -- it's not a great school for a true student-athlete who excels at both, unless they have wealthy parents who can pay for private sports opportunities. [/quote]

Not true. Tons of small high schools in wealthy suburbs in the northeast. We’re in a CT suburb outside of NYC, 550 kid high school.

In southern states like VA and MD schools are run at the county level and are run like giant soulless prisons to save money. In the northeast schools are run at the town level, so wealthy towns invest a lot in them and they are smaller with smaller class sizes much like private schools. Unfortunately this means they are also more segregated. But it also means every single kid is from a wealthy family and therefore more likely to be high achieving. Tons of advanced offerings here. [/quote]

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