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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walls is comparable to a mediocre neighborhood high school in the surrounding burbs.  It is what it is.

It is not comparable to the selective and magnet high schools in the surrounding burbs.

The sooner you realize and accept that, the better.  Want a mediocre school then Walls if you get in.  Want a top school, move to the burbs in good school pyramid where you also get the benefit of a very good middle school.[/quote]

Not true because practically 💯 of class cohort is very motivated/on task/and a large percent are quite high performing (my Walls soph just scored 1490 on October PSAT). There are no (or very very few) disruptive kids.  No way this is the case for your garden variety public school in the suburbs.[/quote]

Just because your kid did well on one test doesn’t mean that the school is good.[/quote]

You are ignoring the critical component of my comment - that the class cohort is extremely well behaved.  If you don't think that is a huge advantage over most public high schools (and a fabulous learning environment if you have a high-performing smart kid), then I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

[b]Sorry but you exemplify the low standards in DC. [/b]

You do realize that with tracking, there are no behavior issues in the highest level classes.  So you can absolutely have a well behaved class and tracking in any typical average suburban high schools.

Add in their magnets and test in, you also have standardized testing so all 3

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My eyes are rolling so hard they may fall out of my head.  I exemplify the low standards in DC?  The walls cohort is essentially tracking writ large.  Could you have a marginally higher performing group if you did some gatekeeping with an entrance exam? Sure. Is this necessary given the substantial group of extremely high performing kids in each grade?  No.  What is really necessary to improve the school IMO is an overhaul of the curriculum and getting rid of the sizeable number of bad/mediocre teachers.  Doesn’t matter how top notch the student body is if the great teaching/demanding curriculum is not there.  That being said, my kid likes it, and life is a journey not a race, so I don’t know that I would want school to be super demanding in all respects anyway.  (Yeah yeah, more proof that I exemplify low standards)[/quote]

No, you do have low standards because you have repeatedly failed to acknowledge that the academic performance of the cohort of the school has fallen.  The bar has gone down when you don’t have some objective standardized data as part of the selection process.

The walls cohort is far from tracking a high performing group.  Just look at the data, about 7% of the kids are above grade level in math.  That is abysmal for what is supposed to be one of the top selective high schools in the city. As someone pointed out, about 1/3rd of the kids, specifically 35%, are below grade level.

There is NO substantial group of extremely high performing kids in any grade in math.[/quote]

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