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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this entire thread based on one year's worth of data? What's the 5 year data look like? Who cares if they have one fluke year if it's not part of a bigger trend?[/quote]

I predict it’s going to be part of a bigger trend.  With honors for all, the top kids won’t be challenge to reach their full potential. The curriculum is dumb downed.  This potentially translates to lower SAT scores, lower AP scores, etc…

Also, because if honors for all, families with these top performing kids who would have chosen Wilson in the past are now looking at other options for HS.  If you don’t believe this, you have not been paying attention.[/quote]

Yes PP, #1, that is correct - all this nonsense on one year of flawed data!

PP #2, you are foolishly speculating with no basis whatsoever.   The curriculum is not "dumb downed," families of high-performing kids are not fleeing Wilson, and honors-for-all is not making much of a difference for high-performing kids.  Not sure why their are so many bedwetters on this forum.   [/quote]

NP - Principal Martin's decision to eliminate AP World History as an [u]option[/u] for 10th grade was the last "Honors for All" straw for our family. Last year we sent our straight A Deal student to Walls instead. We did not choose Walls; we effectively were driven from Wilson. At Wilson academically strong students are slow rolled for two years (9th & 10th) in "Honors for All" and then placed into large AP classes with 30+ students their last two years (11th & 12th) so that the on-level classes for juniors and seniors can be limited to no more than 20 students. The school's policies are no longer designed to meet the needs of academically strong students (which I believe is unethical) and as such it does not surprise me that Wilson's placements into top schools have begun to slip. [/quote]

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