My network has a 'random-ass lottery system' for admitting kids. We aren't gifted or selective enrollment or anything. The one school in the network that has 8th grade already has graduated something like 7 or 8 classes. Of those kids, 75% have gotten into selective enrollment CPS and 'tier one' private high schools. 99% of ALL kids who graduated from our 8th grade at least four years ago have graduated high school. Of THOSE kids, 95% are in colleges and universities, I think something like 70% of them have some kind of scholarship/grant.
My point being, that while these kids went to a charter school, it wasn't one with an IB or STEM program (though we're getting those now in the middle school) or a gifted track. And they're all doing just fine.
So don't sweat his college acceptance just yet. Getting him in pre-school does tons to ensure that he'll get into any college he wants when the time comes.
Also remember, kids like me went to the school we were assigned to by our location. There was never any choice anywhere in the public setting. Most of the country works that way. So colleges are less likely to dump a kid's application because he went to his neighborhood high school than CPS would have you believe. Kids at neighborhood schools often don't go to college because it's not a priority. Not because the neighborhood school - at any level - couldn't/didn't prepare them for post high-school education.
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My point being, that while these kids went to a charter school, it wasn't one with an IB or STEM program (though we're getting those now in the middle school) or a gifted track. And they're all doing just fine.
So don't sweat his college acceptance just yet. Getting him in pre-school does tons to ensure that he'll get into any college he wants when the time comes.
Also remember, kids like me went to the school we were assigned to by our location. There was never any choice anywhere in the public setting. Most of the country works that way. So colleges are less likely to dump a kid's application because he went to his neighborhood high school than CPS would have you believe. Kids at neighborhood schools often don't go to college because it's not a priority. Not because the neighborhood school - at any level - couldn't/didn't prepare them for post high-school education.