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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it really depends on the kid. I had one go through Whitman and one through private HS. They are different kids with different needs. Both equally smart, but the one in private got lost in the shuffle of Pyle and needed a smaller environment to thrive. The one who went to Whitman didn’t need a smaller environment and benefited from the broader course selection at Whitman. Yes, MCPS can be a joke with some of their grading policies. But for the self-motivated kid that doesn’t matter. [/quote]

Self-motivation doesn’t make up for a low expectation environment. I went to a top private high school and was surrounded by self-motivated kids, many of whom went there because we were motivated to want a more challenging environment.

I’m not sure why you all cast private schools as these places that cater to kids who need coddling or who aren’t self-motivated learners. That simply isn’t true for the top private schools. [/quote]

And I’m really unclear why you’d describe W schools as a “low expectation environment”.  You can have plenty of criticisms of those schools but the absence of a cohort of high performing kids and high expectations isn’t one of them.

In fact one reason we didn’t want our kid to go to Whitman is its reputation as pressure cooker for those kids. [/quote]

How can you really say it’s high expectations when the grading policies are such a joke? [/quote]

Because the kids are immersed in a culture which is telling them that they should go to a highly selective (or rejective) school.  The fact that you can get a 50 for not turning in your homework at all is a pretty irrelevant fact for a kid on an AP/IB/Ivy league track.[/quote]

That’s not high expectations. That’s telling kids they need to pad their resume and get good standardized test scores to get into a top college. That’s not the same thing as high intellectual expectations. [/quote]

That’s a fair point but the poster ai was responding to was saying grading policies were evidence of low expectations and I was saying they aren’t.

I don’t have any way to prove to you that the intellectual expectations of my kid who took full IB were higher or lower than the intellectual expectations of your kid, but I can say in these public schools there is a cohort of high performing kids who take challenging classes and are motivated to do well in them. [/quote]
+1 even with the 50% grading rule, these kids get high scores on AP/IB/SAT exams. They aren't just barely getting As.  [/quote]

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