All Schools should be like Stuyvesant High School (Score 1)

I go to Stuyvesant so imagine my surprise when I saw Stuy being mentioned on Slashdot. The average Sat score at Stuyvesant is 1400-1500. We send between 20 and 40 kids a year to Harvard. Most of our computers run Debian linux. All of our kids have access to their shell accounts via telnet/ssh and all our course programming is done via the web. So tech wise we and academic wise we are 20 years ahead of every other high school in the US and better then some colleges. Stuy isnt an easy place to survive in (long commute hard schedules annoying kids) but its better than the schools that most of my friends attend. We are treated with respect and are basically allowed to do whatever we want (cutting class is easy), but everyone knows the consequences tens years down the line if you do something stupid.Most of us never end up going to ivy league schools however, because pulling a 95 average at Stuy is very very hard. Basically whatever grade you would get at your local zoned school is probably 5 to 10 points higher than a comparable Stuy grade. At stuy the teachers are far more demanding and far less willing to tolerate bullshit.Also the schedule at stuy is very demanding. Take my favorite class ap compsci we meet everyday for one 45 minute period. However, in most other schools the ap compsci classes meet for 10 periods a week. So we only have half the amount of time to cover the course work. At Stuy your not taught to pass some stupid test you are taught that the material is important and valuable and even if you never use it you have to know it to be a better person. Simply put our school kicks ass, but I would rather be on Babylon 5