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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yorktown parent here.  My impression of the school is neutral but I don't see significant issues due to overcrowding in the near future.  My kids really felt overcrowding in PE and at lunch in elementary school and gym, particularly at Williamsburg during the construction of Discovery.

I do find that kids at Yorktown are very conformist and don't want to seen as trying too hard (being a "try hard" is the ultimate social disgrace).  My kids certainly do not receive much individual attention from their teachers.  Also, you see the more intellectual kids going to Jefferson and the nerdier kids (I mean it in a good way as kids who are less conformist)  transfer to W&L  for IB.

I had looked into O'Connell but I did not see/feel much difference between the teaching and students there versus Yorktown.[/quote]

I think this conformist thing is intensely common. [/quote]

That's exactly what you'd expect to happen at a high-income school when you have an outflow of bright and/or quirky students to TJ, HB and W-L, and aren't getting an inflow of similar kids.  [/quote]

Again, there isn't a real outflow of kids from Yorktown to W-L (which has its own conformity issues, natch). Nor to TJ for that matter. And HB is by lottery so it's not like there's "oh and I'm bright and quirky so I'll go to HB instead" at play. You're just being silly.

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LOL.  You are the "try hard" (trying not to admit the obvious) here. [/quote]

I'm a W-L parent (in boundary, not by transfer), and while I can't speak to the 'conformist' nature of Yorktown kids, I can attest to the fact that PP is correct about the number of transfers out of Yorktown. There just aren't that many per class. It's hard to imagine it makes that much difference. Maybe the parents are all conformist, LOL?[/quote]

There are about 75 transfers per grade from Yorktown to HB, W-L and TJ. In a school with 433 seniors, that makes an impact.[/quote]

This isn't accurate.

TJ admitted 15 kids TOTAL to the freshman class from APS in 2015. 
HB admits like 25 kids TOTAL in 9th grade. The rest have been in since 6th grade and, again, this is lottery not merit.
We already talked about the W-L inbound transfers for IB. There simply aren't that many.

There are more like 35-40 transfers per grade. And, while the senior class may be at 433 today, the freshman class is at 510.

It's not a lot.[/quote]

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