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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem with telling IB parents to f#$% off for not agreeing with your views on priorities for a by-right school like Peabody or Brent is that they're IB parents.  Um, they have just as much right to enroll their children in the school as you do, and to stick around in the hood and at the school until the terminal grade.  Ouch.
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no one is stopping them troll[/quote]

[b]The funny thing is that the ones bemoaning the priorities of the Watkins admin are those that don't enroll their kids there.[/b] I'm on of the PPs (didn't tell anyone to f-off though) and my kids went from Peabody/SWS to Watkins to SH. One got into an application school no problem, and I expect the others will too (The younger ones are targeting different application schools than the oldest).[/quote]

And you know this because...???

Our oldest was at Watkins for two and a half years. We moved in-boundary for Maury over the winter and enrolled there this year. Much better despite the trailer camp.

I mostly found challenge for my Watkins student at home, by creating the challenge.  It was too much work for a busy mama so glad I've been able to scale back this year.  
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There are people who go through Watkins and it works for their kids. They have posted above and posters who responded critically are idiots. I'm glad to hear their positive stories.

It's also true that there are many of us who tried Watkins - in our case for a total of 7 years with two kids - and did not have a great experience and are leaving. We generally liked the teachers, from what we saw, and each of our children was OK for some years, but they did consistently complain about discipline issues, and sometimes complained about boredom.

Telling people that had a good experience that they are wrong is silly. But so is ignoring the real problems that many kids have.
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