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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The level of work at Sidwell and Bullis are vastly different in both depth and quantity, as are the level of expectations and corresponding assessments (how hard they grade).[/quote]

Do you have children attending both schools?  Also, assuming you are correct with your assertion, maybe Bullis is teaching the children more efficiently?   Look at the colleges...[/quote]

DP (and I don't have kids at either school0: the colleges kids go to has literally nothing to do with what or how a high school teaches.  If you haven't been through the process yet, you will find this out someday. Take whichever prestige college you want and look at where ALL the freshman come from -- a wide range of high schools. This is related to why you don't pick a high school based on lists of college matriculations. Also, don't pick a college based on where some magazine puts it in a generalized linear list.[/quote]

Agreed.  But the matriculation list obviously does provide "prestige" and that is what this post is about.  Sidwell may be allegedly working them "harder" but is it just more busy work from and a much less efficient approach?  If so, couldn't those Sidwell students be working on other skills?  Bullis is on fire and other schools cannot keep up...[/quote]

It’s more work and it’s their “teach yourself” mantra. Like the british uni tutelage- study and learn it yourself, then swing by class to discuss the intracacies once a week. [/quote]

Do you think reading John Stuart Mill in its entirey is busy work? With Socratic dissection of the themes in a seminar-style class? Ok. [/quote]

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