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Old 09-28-2010, 02:00 PM
 
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New Trier is a fabulous school ... certainly that's what the administrators there say. It's so gigantic that there is a group for everyone, like the kids who meet at the "Cancer Corner" to smoke, and discuss their exploits in dope, tattoos and robo's. Some of the teachers are fantastic, which your children may get if they are in the top "Level", but otherwise they may get clueless newbies who teach at lower levels and are there because they work cheap. Or maybe one of your children needs extra help because they aren't doing homework and have no direction ... well, there is a ton of social service that will pick your kid right up and put him right back on the assembly line, but -- fear not -- no one will ever exact a meaningful punishment for not doing homework. But if your child is average, he or she will get a nice average classroom experience that is exactly like the classroom experience (taught by someone with paperwork from some ed school somewhere, and using modern garish textbooks sanitized for political correctness) at any suburban high school that hasn't yet become a cesspool of disorder. Just ask for longitudinal data to prove that a child with some given test score upon entry will graduate with a better test score than if he/she had attended some other high school. Go ahead, ask them to prove that New Trier offers a better experience for a child with a given incoming score profile than does Glenbrook, Deerfield, Highland Park, or any other public high school in the area. No such data exists, because nobody wants to disrupt the illusion. Oh, if you do start in New Trier or any North Shore public grade school, be aware that there is nothing else offered in the public school arena, thanks to draconian state laws that make charter schools all but illegal. Just happily pay your astounding property taxes so that the superintendent can live in King Midas style, and keep your eyes closed and your trap shut -- just like most everyone else around here.

Extremely entertaining..btw I know kids that went to the "oh so prestigious" New Trier and Stevenson that are now working at Best Buy! As I'm sure you know just sending your kids to a so called "great" school isn't always a golden ticket to the Ivy leagues...or even NIU for that matter...
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Old 09-28-2010, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Lake Arlington Heights, IL
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Extremely entertaining..btw I know kids that went to the "oh so prestigious" New Trier and Stevenson that are now working at Best Buy! As I'm sure you know just sending your kids to a so called "great" school isn't always a golden ticket to the Ivy leagues...or even NIU for that matter...
And there are a few kids from crappy CPS schools (not the magnet schools)that go on to college (not on sports scholarship) BUT the averages do not support this as the typical outcome JUST as the averages do not support the NT or Stevenson grad working at Best Buy as a typical outcome.
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