Joe Weedon wants permission to send his daughter to Walls

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW test is just not that hard. A child with educated parents, who presumably lives in a language-rich home, and who reads, will pass it. And a child from a well-known political family will get through the interview phase.

Exactly. How hard is a test in school in DC? It’s “dc hard” so basically grade level in VA or Bethesda.

Well when MD did PARCC, SWW scored better than any MD high school so that leads me to believe not all MD kids would get into SWW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW test is just not that hard. A child with educated parents, who presumably lives in a language-rich home, and who reads, will pass it. And a child from a well-known political family will get through the interview phase.

Exactly. How hard is a test in school in DC? It’s “dc hard” so basically grade level in VA or Bethesda.

Well when MD did PARCC, SWW scored better than any MD high school so that leads me to believe not all MD kids would get into SWW.

SWW = a test-in school. If you compared their scores to the MD magnet students (subset of Blair, part of Richard Montgomery) there wouldn't be much of a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW test is just not that hard. A child with educated parents, who presumably lives in a language-rich home, and who reads, will pass it. And a child from a well-known political family will get through the interview phase.

Exactly. How hard is a test in school in DC? It’s “dc hard” so basically grade level in VA or Bethesda.

Well when MD did PARCC, SWW scored better than any MD high school so that leads me to believe not all MD kids would get into SWW.

SWW = a test-in school. If you compared their scores to the MD magnet students (subset of Blair, part of Richard Montgomery) there wouldn't be much of a difference.

I was simply responding to PP insinuating it wasn’t on par to any MD school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW test is just not that hard. A child with educated parents, who presumably lives in a language-rich home, and who reads, will pass it. And a child from a well-known political family will get through the interview phase.

Exactly. How hard is a test in school in DC? It’s “dc hard” so basically grade level in VA or Bethesda.

Well when MD did PARCC, SWW scored better than any MD high school so that leads me to believe not all MD kids would get into SWW.

Where is the data you cite to back this up? You can’t really compare SWW magnet to MoCo magnets and VA magnet programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The SWW test is just not that hard. A child with educated parents, who presumably lives in a language-rich home, and who reads, will pass it. And a child from a well-known political family will get through the interview phase.

Exactly. How hard is a test in school in DC? It’s “dc hard” so basically grade level in VA or Bethesda.

Well when MD did PARCC, SWW scored better than any MD high school so that leads me to believe not all MD kids would get into SWW.

Where is the data you cite to back this up? You can’t really compare SWW magnet to MoCo magnets and VA magnet programs.

Parc scores are public so can only compare MD schools. AGAIN, was responding to PP that insinuated SWW is not as good as any highly regarded MD high schools.

[Anonymous]

PARCC scores:

SWW
94% ELA
73% Math
Combined 83%


MD schools (combined ELA/Math):
http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/parcc2017/high/
Whitman 84%
Wootton 81%
Winston 77%
Damascus 71%
BCC 68%

[Anonymous]

I’m impressed they did as well as Whitman and better than BCC.

[Anonymous]

Again - you can’t compare comprehensive high schools (all the MoCos listed above) to a selective enrollment school like SWW, where the best students are selected to attend.

Apples and oranges.

Can we get back to Mr and Mrs Weedon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again - you can’t compare comprehensive high schools (all the MoCos listed above) to a selective enrollment school like SWW, where the best students are selected to attend.

Apples and oranges.

Can we get back to Mr and Mrs Weedon?

Again, I was responding to this poster: “Exactly. How hard is a test in school in DC? It’s “dc hard” so basically grade level in VA or Bethesda.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m impressed they did as well as Whitman and better than BCC.

Also SWW has 3 times the at risk students as Whitman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm still flabbergasted that they went public this way. SWW is a DCPS application school. Applying to it or any of the other application schools doesn't undermine anyone's commitment to the DCPS neighborhood system. Magnet and application schools exist in many mainstream public school systems, whether by city or county.

Based on his previous comments he had to do something. “You’re a racist but because my decision is so difficult I’m not a racist.” LMAO

What cover he chose was a more difficult decision than the inevitable choice of Walls over Eastern.

[Anonymous]

No- what this shows is that complex problems have readily available easy solutions that don’t work. ‘Boosting’ neighborhood schools assumes that the problem with schools is a lack of boosting. It’s not. It’s years of systematic racism.
I teach in dcps. I want all kids with SN to have a rich & fulfilling education. I work towards that aim everyday. And I removed my SN kid from dcps because I know how we treat our most vulnerable learners. I see no contradiction. No moral confusion. The base of compassion (boosting) is wisdom. I know where I want out schools to be & what’s best for my child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores:

SWW
94% ELA
73% Math
Combined 83%


MD schools (combined ELA/Math):
http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/parcc2017/high/
Whitman 84%
Wootton 81%
Winston 77%
Damascus 71%
BCC 68%

Come on, it's hard to tell much of anything from HS PARCC scores. The kids know that they gain nothing personally from scoring high. Some of them bomb the test on purpose, or refuse to take it. You're much better off comparing SAT scores, an evaluation where the kids has skin in the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PARCC scores:

SWW
94% ELA
73% Math
Combined 83%


MD schools (combined ELA/Math):
http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/parcc2017/high/
Whitman 84%
Wootton 81%
Winston 77%
Damascus 71%
BCC 68%

Come on, it's hard to tell much of anything from HS PARCC scores. The kids know that they gain nothing personally from scoring high. Some of them bomb the test on purpose, or refuse to take it. You're much better off comparing SAT scores, an evaluation where the kids has skin in the game.

MCPS doesn’t release average SAT scores by school any longer. It’s not because they are afraid of comparisons of Whitman to SWW. It’s because they are so embarrassed by the scores in the bottom 1/2 of MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No- what this shows is that complex problems have readily available easy solutions that don’t work. ‘Boosting’ neighborhood schools assumes that the problem with schools is a lack of boosting. It’s not. It’s years of systematic racism.
I teach in dcps. I want all kids with SN to have a rich & fulfilling education. I work towards that aim everyday. And I removed my SN kid from dcps because I know how we treat our most vulnerable learners. I see no contradiction. No moral confusion. The base of compassion (boosting) is wisdom. I know where I want out schools to be & what’s best for my child.

If the problem is treatment of SN, how is that systemic racism?