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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My very smart kid went to Walls and then to a selective SLAC and was NOT prepared at all. [b]he didn't know how to organize his time and had bad study habits, and didn't really know how to write papers[/b].  It took him at least one semester to figure it out and it was very challenging. He ended up doing very well and has a great job now (2 years out) so it all worked out in the end but DCPS certainly didn't teach him the skills he needed to succeed[/quote]

Wait a minute, my kid is at Walls and I know a few other kids that have graduated from there. None of the previous graduates indicate any of the issues you describe. In particular, the time management piece and writing papers. You will drown at Walls without time management skills. They have senior projects and a lot of papers over the years. Walls certainly has issues but not the ones described. Sounds like the independence was just too much initially and he had to stop the partying. That's not on any high school.[/quote]

True that some of the time management issues were on him.  But writing college-level essays is something that a school like Walls ought to have do a better job with. And it just wasn't happening. Also the school did a terrible, terrible job with the senior project.  It was a big joke. The "advisor" he was assigned had no idea what he was doing, they got no meaningful guidance whatsoever. It was a huge disappointment. All that said, the kid turned out just fine in the end so maybe it really doesn't matter all so much? :) One thing I can say about Walls is that other students that year were great-- smart, ambitious, and they all pushed each other intellectually.[/quote]

my read on the story: kid got drunk a bunch away from home; doesn't tell their parents, blames study skills. parents take it at face value. kid isn't an idiot and shapes up in their second semester. [/quote]

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