Anonymous
09/26/2020 10:41
Subject: Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:DCUM is obsessed with Curie. A scandal that seems to inly exist on DCUM with no official sources and no official action.
Are you surprised?? Envy can make you irrational. Also, easier to pretend that the reason your kid did not get in is because of some external factors rater than they were poor candidates.
Anonymous
09/26/2020 10:38
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
I have zero affiliation to Curie and support the change to a lottery system, but why do people keep attacking it by name? Let's say 28 percent of an admitted class went there for test prep, it's possible that already really high achievers self selected into going their for the prep class, so it makes sense the admit numbers are so high. Until there is some definitive proof that they inappropriately had access to the test and it's proven by a credible source, I feel like people on this board are destroying someone's livelihood based on hearsay on an anonymous forum.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 15:25
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Do you think that Curie will be able to provide the state of the art facilities that TJ has? Or the Teachers? Curie charges a lot to teach to a test in a class room that probably requires a black board or white board and maybe some computers. It doesn't have labs or full on classrooms.
$4,000 is a lot but if you think that it might help you gain admission to a high school that would cost something like $40,000-$50,000 a year then it is well worth investing that $4,000. I would be surprised to find that there were many kids attending private Middle Schools at Curie, or any other prep program, because parents are already paying a lot of money for school and expect the school to handle the prep for them.
There is a reason why people move from public school to private school if their kids are not accepted into AAP or TJ. The privates are expensive and the education that you get in AAP and TJ is equivalent, if not better, and doesn't cost anything.
They also cram 12 kids into a tiny room. Watch any of the videos on their website.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 15:21
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Do you think that Curie will be able to provide the state of the art facilities that TJ has? Or the Teachers? Curie charges a lot to teach to a test in a class room that probably requires a black board or white board and maybe some computers. It doesn't have labs or full on classrooms.
$4,000 is a lot but if you think that it might help you gain admission to a high school that would cost something like $40,000-$50,000 a year then it is well worth investing that $4,000. I would be surprised to find that there were many kids attending private Middle Schools at Curie, or any other prep program, because parents are already paying a lot of money for school and expect the school to handle the prep for them.
There is a reason why people move from public school to private school if their kids are not accepted into AAP or TJ. The privates are expensive and the education that you get in AAP and TJ is equivalent, if not better, and doesn't cost anything.
Wrong. This is FCPS not a small district in the NY, NJ, Conn, PA suburbs. AAP is so broad it's meaningless. Now it's tracking with additional costs for taxpayers. We had children in the pre-Naglieri era and none had any test prep except some brief SAT prep. Most people believe TJ should revert to a base school with an academy.
Curie could run a home school center targeting as clients it's core TJ test prep crowd. CTY at Hopkins https://cty.jhu.edu/online/courses/index.html#9-12
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:34
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Do you think that Curie will be able to provide the state of the art facilities that TJ has? Or the Teachers? Curie charges a lot to teach to a test in a class room that probably requires a black board or white board and maybe some computers. It doesn't have labs or full on classrooms.
$4,000 is a lot but if you think that it might help you gain admission to a high school that would cost something like $40,000-$50,000 a year then it is well worth investing that $4,000. I would be surprised to find that there were many kids attending private Middle Schools at Curie, or any other prep program, because parents are already paying a lot of money for school and expect the school to handle the prep for them.
There is a reason why people move from public school to private school if their kids are not accepted into AAP or TJ. The privates are expensive and the education that you get in AAP and TJ is equivalent, if not better, and doesn't cost anything.
$4,000 is a lot but if you think that it might help you gain admission to a high school that would cost something like $40,000-$50,000 a year then it is well worth investing that $4,000. I would be surprised to find that there were many kids attending private Middle Schools at Curie, or any other prep program, because parents are already paying a lot of money for school and expect the school to handle the prep for them.
There is a reason why people move from public school to private school if their kids are not accepted into AAP or TJ. The privates are expensive and the education that you get in AAP and TJ is equivalent, if not better, and doesn't cost anything.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:27
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
Yes, but Curie charged over 4K for one course that was specifically geared to TJ prep. Running a high school is a way bigger deal than that.
Even if they take $40-50,000 per year as fees, people will go.
they won't unless curie has enough credibility to get them into good colleges which it wouldn't
They already have credibility.. They were able to get 28% of last year's class into TJ.
The high school I guess will start small, with focus on AP subjects, etc.
Do you really think MIT or CAL tech will be admitting kids from an unaccredited for profit school that no one has ever heard of?
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:26
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
Yes, but Curie charged over 4K for one course that was specifically geared to TJ prep. Running a high school is a way bigger deal than that.
Even if they take $40-50,000 per year as fees, people will go.
they won't unless curie has enough credibility to get them into good colleges which it wouldn't
They already have credibility.. They were able to get 28% of last year's class into TJ.
The high school I guess will start small, with focus on AP subjects, etc.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:22
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
Yes, but Curie charged over 4K for one course that was specifically geared to TJ prep. Running a high school is a way bigger deal than that.
Even if they take $40-50,000 per year as fees, people will go.
they won't unless curie has enough credibility to get them into good colleges which it wouldn't
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:17
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
Yes, but Curie charged over 4K for one course that was specifically geared to TJ prep. Running a high school is a way bigger deal than that.
Even if they take $40-50,000 per year as fees, people will go.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:16
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
more than that for most good ones. Currie/TJ seem geared for people who want elite, but can't actually afford private elite
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:14
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
Yes, but Curie charged over 4K for one course that was specifically geared to TJ prep. Running a high school is a way bigger deal than that.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:13
Subject: Will this force prep schools like Curie
DCUM is obsessed with Curie. A scandal that seems to inly exist on DCUM with no official sources and no official action.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:12
Subject: Re:Will this force prep schools like Curie
Curie is expensive but not private high school expensive. I think you are talking around $20,000 a year for private high school in this area.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:11
Subject: Will this force prep schools like Curie
Anonymous wrote:to start new High School for gifted ?
No. There are plenty of private options currently available where students can blow through Calculus and well beyond. Indeed, at some of them you have students succeeding in Calculus in middle school and opening High School in Multivariable, or LinAlg, or DiffEQ.
Anonymous
09/24/2020 14:09
Subject: Will this force prep schools like Curie
to start new High School for gifted ?