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[quote=Anonymous]I have friends at Wakefield -- their DD is loving it!  She is white, is involved in sports, and is rocking it for all it's worth.

I also have friends at a "not bottom on the barrel, but on the low-side of FCPS" school and in classes that are not honors (such as world lang. and grade-level math) kids report that their are so many kids who are disruptive in class that the teachers quit, threaten to quit, or finally get sick of the losers and put them in the back so that the 5 kids who want to learn are put in the front where the teacher tries to teach them.  That's what you can be dealing with in a school where academic achievement is not the majority's goal.  In schools like this, you stay in honors classes whenever you can... and if you do well, you will be noticed.  This same school is where another friend's kid was too ashamed to have her friends know that she was taking 4 AP classes at one time.  She didn't want them to make fun of her.  I don't think that would be the case at other schools -- where many kids are taking 4 APs -- no big deal.

Culture does matter --- but, still, highly motivated kids will do well anywhere. It's those who aren't super stellar who might benefit from an overall culture of academic achievement that exists are middle and higher level schools.[/quote]

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