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I 100% totally missed that and I am very sorry. I thought your comment was simply that because your kids are doing well then all kids must be doing well.
by arionhardison 9y ago
I 100% totally missed that and I am very sorry. I thought your comment was simply that because your kids are doing well then all kids must be doing well.
- azernik 9y agoThe point isn't that they're "doing well". It's that the coursework they're assigned is rigorous. You could also have students doing poorly on such coursework, but that would also contradict the anecdata in the main article.
- tptacek 9y agoMy kids are in public school, not Catholic school. I was comparing a system that was designed specifically to produce college students to the default for people in my area of Chicagoland, and finding that the default was if anything more rigorous than the selective private school.
- angersock 9y agoYou're out in Oak Park, right? That makes you folks an outlier no?
- tptacek 9y agoIf you want to get a sense of where I live, Google for the intersection of Lake and Austin streets in Chicago.
- arionhardison 9y agoI'm lived up in Riverdale.
- milankovic 9y agoI don't know if this means anything to you, but, to be honest, I somehow got the same impression from the comment in question.