Can we please stop with the JKLM
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
It is shorthand for west of the park Deal feeder elementary schools, minus Hearst (not sure why, maybe it didn't always feed Deal or some other no longer applicable reason?) |
Anonymous
| Hearst feeds to Deal still. I think it was excluded because it used to be majority OOB and diverse ... but now the demographics are the same as JKLM. |
Anonymous
| Meant to say Hearst has always fed to Deal. |
Anonymous
I don't live in JKLM or send my kids there, bit that's just too easy. Those schools are the topic of frequent discussion because they, along with their MS and HS feeders, are the best in DCPS. Parents who strive to provide to their kids the best education are therefore understandably fixated on JKLM. |
Anonymous
Key and Mann feed to Hardy. I think JKLM (Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann) dates back to the days before charter schools had really taken hold, when the NW elementaries had the reputation of being basically the only game in town. Now, we have HRCSs. And plenty of other elementaries that DCUM would not have considered a decade ago. This is why you hear "JKLM" so rarely anymore here that people don't know what it stands for. |
Anonymous
With exception of magnet high schools at the top, the top scores are simply the richest and whitest schools. When you really break it down at most of the schools, they actually underperform compared to other non-JKLMs. Hint, check out the black student performance at Lafayette. |
Anonymous
| JRKL is now the acronym folks. |
Anonymous
The HR doesn’t fit anymore so you don’t hear HRCS as much either. |
Anonymous
To add… Empower makes it very easy to drill it down. When looking at top performance for just White students, the rankings are as follows: Math: Payne 92% Hyde Addison 90% Maury Banneker Tyler Stoddert Murch Eliot Hine SWW Van Ness Brent Key Janney Deal Bancroft Jefferson Sojourner Truth DC Bilingual Watkins Capital City Oyster Adams Inspired Teaching Marie Reed Shepherd LT Eaton Sela Stokes Mundo Verde 8th 75% ELA Walls 98% Latin 95% Deal Ross Payne Maury Janney DC Bilingual Bancroft Key LT Oyster Duke Ellington Lafayette Hardy SH Eaton Two Rivers McKinley Latin Cooper Stoddert Jefferson Walls Basis Hyde Addison Eastern Latin Middle Lee Hearst Murch 78% JR CHM DCI ITS MV Tyler 75% Mann 69% So again…and I’ve said this for years now, there is no “JKLM” those are just the schools that don’t have black and brown at risk kids that muddy their overall scores so their average 79-80% scores look really good overall but when you compare them citywide they are average at best. |
Anonymous
| Thus people should go back to saying things like “WOTP” when they are referring to safe rich white schools, but stop putting them in this high regard state because they’re not doing anything special above Payne, Brent, or even Inspired Teaching. |
Anonymous
Do you maybe mean HPCS? If so, I think that means High Performing Charter School. |
Anonymous
No it's HRCS - highly regarded charter school |
Anonymous
Gee, that makes sense—just filter out non-white kids. What are you saying about skin color? Are you that clueless? And do you realize that there are only a handful of white kids at many of these schools? |
Anonymous
You’re not getting it. The point is that rich white students tend to perform well on standardized tests. Thus, when you get a school like Lafayette full of rich quote students of course it’s going to “seem” like a top school based on raw numbers. However, when you compare the white kids at Janney/Lafayette and the white kids a XYZ school in ward 6 and then you compare the black student performance at each school, you will quickly see that Lafayette (or input your favorite JKLM) is not the best school in the city. In fact, it’s not even to 10 when you compare apples to apples. So I agree with OP, let’s stop saying JKLM because it doesn’t mean anything. |
Anonymous
Also, I’m a Black parent of a Black student. Stop trying to insinuate anything. I’m clearly referring to the bias that is pervasive in DCUM when those continue with this “JKLM” mess. |