Via USA Today:
“… Although the school's creative ambitions have been frustrated by high principal turnover, curriculum tensions and a student body unfamiliar with laptop computer culture, the school graduates its first senior class Tuesday with each student having been accepted to an institution of higher learning. … Students' familiarity with Microsoft programs make them employable straight out of high school, she said. They are also evaluated on "competencies" that Seattle-based Microsoft uses with its own employees, such as dealing with ambiguity and thinking on the fly. … "There are kids in this building who would have flunked out of other high schools," Arjunan said. "I just think the culture here is unlike any other."”
“… Although the school's creative ambitions have been frustrated by high principal turnover, curriculum tensions and a student body unfamiliar with laptop computer culture, the school graduates its first senior class Tuesday with each student having been accepted to an institution of higher learning.
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Students' familiarity with Microsoft programs make them employable straight out of high school, she said. They are also evaluated on "competencies" that Seattle-based Microsoft uses with its own employees, such as dealing with ambiguity and thinking on the fly.
"There are kids in this building who would have flunked out of other high schools," Arjunan said. "I just think the culture here is unlike any other."”
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