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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Caltech acceptance rate for last year was about 7% so no surprise there.

Wilson is a good school. It's funny how much it's being vilified by charter school advocates. We are in boundary and did not consider it because of the terrible things we were told. And please do not believe those who say that anyone who does homework gets an "A" . Maybe in general music or health classes but believe me, there was a Physics class where the teacher only gave one "A", 2 "B+", a few "C"S and "D"s and failed the rest.  [/quote][b]a teacher who does this is a failur[/b]e, imo. One of Wilson's flaws is that ineffective teachers cannot easily or rapidly be shown the door [/quote]

Not at all. The teacher was very good and left Wilson. She just had high standards and was always willing to help students. She would stay until the building was closed to guide them through extra lab work. Only a few students would show up for extra hours.[/quote]

If the only way they could learn without failing was to do extra lab work that no one could or would attend- that is a failure of a teacher. [/quote]
According to my DS and his friend, most students would not listen to the teacher, play or talk during lab, not take notes, not do well on the quizzes and not care about the make-up tests. Students need to take responsibility for their learning.

I wish we had ignored those charter school advocates and enrolled DS at Wilson starting his freshman year. He would have avoided all the headaches and heartaches and been a recipient of merit scholarships. And while in his charter he was labeled "academically too weak" supposedly could not understand any chemistry concepts and was "not collegebound material", he was able to score two "4"s and two "5" in his AP's, in 3 sciences and 1 math.

Wilson has its share of problems, but there is definitely teaching and learning going on.[/quote]

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