Anonymous
09/06/2025 12:05
Subject: Private High School Parents - do your children get the classes they need for college?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My child is on the "wait list" for a science class they need for their planned major for college. In the spring when they registered, they did not realized they needed this science class and selected a different science class.
They recognized their error in early May as they started looking more at colleges and have been on the wait list since then.
The school has a waitlist of at least 10 students for this class. I was hoping the school would create another section - but as of now, they are telling the students to find an online class and take it and drop a class from their schedule.
Is this typical? I would expect this from DCPS - but surprised it is coming from a Private HS
You are kidding right?
Private HS are no where near as academic as public. Most do not have even close to the same offerings.
Only parochial schools. Topntier privates have MUCH more to offer for college bound kids - I say this because our school does not offer shop or driver's ed the way my public school did.
“Much more”? Not in terms of course catalog.
Anonymous
09/06/2025 12:02
Subject: Private High School Parents - do your children get the classes they need for college?
How is physics not required?
Anonymous
09/06/2025 12:00
Subject: Private High School Parents - do your children get the classes they need for college?
At our school, they get the classes they requested in the Spring. Can't blame the school for student's failure to ask the school for courses that student only wants after the request deadline.
Anonymous
09/05/2025 20:21
Subject: Private High School Parents - do your children get the classes they need for college?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:LOL imagine paying $50k for private school and being told there isn’t room in the physics class, take it online
A few years ago we looked at privates and my kid was accelerated in math so we were told we had to do it online or outside at our cost.
How accelerated? GDS -- which is generally very opposed to acceleration -- has two years of classes post calculus. I assume many privates are similar.
I think our school only has one post-AP class. But if a kid is more than a couple years accelerated, private schools typically can’t support that, barring a couple like Basis, where more acceleration is available at the expense of the high school experience.