current and former 8th grader parents

toadstool
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:10:35 +0000

quote “I assume that kids always compete with each other within their grade (9-12) academically. How does it work in terms of sports?”

At boarding school, due to the many levels of classes and teams, students generally are not locked into competing within the grade only, particularly in Math or Science. Schools usually have sort of “equalizer” classes in freshman year (deadly boring for the brightest kids) but after that each subject is offered in varying levels* (I know of one Boarding school that has 5 different levels of Chemistry). Similarly, team levels are sorted by ability, not grade.


exemption. DA has canceled “AP” English classes and teaches all Junior year English at the AP Level. They assume that all their student are AP students.