PARCC results: how will they be communicated to families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have the results broken down by demographics? Especially since the overall story seems to be that the shutdown had a much bigger effect on black/AA scores and at risk scores, it seems like the above lists probably just show how many white kids a school has. No?

I'd be more interested to see if there was a big difference once you control for demographics. Did any schools actually handle the pandemic better or worse?

Ludlow-Taylor appears to have the best overall ELA score on the Hill and SWS less good (counting all grades), so definitely not just a measure of how white the schools are.

For ELA:

LT: 69
Brent: 66
Maury: 66
SWS: 56
2 Rivers: 39
Watkins: 37

Interested to see where things land on math.

So I was curious how this was possible given the demographic differences between these schools and it turns out Ludlow-Taylor has among the best ELA scores in the city for both AA and white kids, which is how they managed to come out on top for ELA. For math, the scores for the Hill are rather horrifyingly directly reflective of racial composition with enormous (60!! percentage point!) gulfs in achievement.

So for math:

Watkins 39 (78 white)
LT 44 (79 white)
Maury 59 (80 white)
Brent 67 (81 white)

Only SWS is really off straight demographics with 58 (67 white).

But the horrifying thing here is the AA numbers which range from like 13-20.

Maury unusually let in a lot of students off the waitlist in 5th grade in 2021-2022, which is also part of the picture. Still there is a lot of room for improvement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On behalf of everyone looking to see hot takes on PARCC scores, can we please ask all of you who want to relitigate school closures/COVID policies/WTU complicity and how you all knew better to go to one of the other 1000 threads you've derailed and beat your dead horses there?

+10000000000000000000

Yes, nobody allowed to mention the obvious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

I worry about this too, but I also think this could really light a fire to focus on phonics and math in the pre-PARCC grades, which is a good response. The bigger issue is how we remediate the kids scoring poorly in the testing grades. Especially in the elementary grades, these are the kids who really got screwed over and need/deserve serious attention focused not just on raising their PARCC scores but addressing the underlying reasons why they were so low.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

Or maybe DC will just drop PARCC like every other state in the US already has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

Before any academics, I'd like schools to focus on behavior -- how to make friends, how to be resliant, how to listen, how to be patient -- so many kids are missing these skills because of the pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

Before any academics, I'd like schools to focus on behavior -- how to make friends, how to be resliant, how to listen, how to be patient -- so many kids are missing these skills because of the pandemic.

We’re in a pre-testing grade at a very well run Title 1 and I agree with both of these. I trust that at our school, the admin will be creative and implement changes that will ultimately be good for my younger kids. I’m so sorry for the older kids that these changes will come on the backs of, though. I also hope they focus heavily on socio-emotional. They do a great job with it in normal times, but these aren’t normal times and the teachers have so many balls to juggle already. I think the next 2-3 years will be really telling.

[Anonymous]

Oh Langley

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

Before any academics, I'd like schools to focus on behavior -- how to make friends, how to be resliant, how to listen, how to be patient -- so many kids are missing these skills because of the pandemic.

These children have parents, right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All public and charter schools in DC with a 5th grade, is what it looks like to me.

You can't compare fifth grade classes across schools though since so many kids shuffle to middle schools and better feeder patterns in fifth.

What is the best comparison?

Probably 3rd grade for how well the school did distance learning (since those kids did K and 1st remote) or 4th for the school overall. There's attrition in 4th at many schools, but the biggest loss happens all at once in 5th.

+1. Fifth grade classrooms look markedly different from every other elementary grade in schools that don't have middle school pathways. Just look at the threads on MacFarland right now. Aside from a few pioneers, everyone that can get out does get out. That leaves a much more disadvantaged population remaining in fifth. Test scores would reflect that.

3rd grade ELA proficiency (look at Burroughs!)

85.19 Ross Elementary School
84.54 Janney Elementary School
82 Key Elementary School
75.93 Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School
70.49 Stoddert Elementary School
68 Mann Elementary School
67.16 Eaton Elementary School
66.92 Lafayette Elementary School
65.91 Hearst Elementary School
60.98 Shepherd Elementary School
60.34 Brent Elementary School
57.32 Maury Elementary School
54.76 Murch Elementary School
54.69 Hyde-Addison Elementary School
54.17 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
50.54 Bancroft Elementary School
50 Oyster-Adams Bilingual School
46.43 Latin American Montessori Bilingual PCS
46.15 Burroughs Elementary School
44.19 School-Within-School @ Goding
43.66 Washington Yu Ying PCS
42.31 Center City PCS - Brightwood
37.78 Two Rivers PCS - 4th Street
37.68 DC Bilingual PCS
37.25 Marie Reed Elementary School
36.96 Two Rivers PCS - Young Elementary School
36.11 Payne Elementary School
35.29 School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
35.14 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland
34.48 Garrison Elementary School
33.33 Seaton Elementary School
33.33 Van Ness Elementary School
33.33 Center City PCS - Congress Heights
33.33 Sela PCS
31.82 Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS - Brookland
31.71 Amidon-Bowen Elementary School
29.87 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - J.F. Cook
29.49 Watkins Elementary School (Capitol Hill Cluster)
28.3 Dorothy I. Height Elementary School
27.45 J.O. Wilson Elementary School
27.27 Thomson Elementary School
26.67 Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
26.47 John Lewis Elementary School
26.09 Center City PCS - Petworth
25.35 DC Prep PCS - Edgewood Elementary School
25 Center City PCS - Capitol Hill
23.91 Friendship PCS - Woodridge International Elementary
23.81 Center City PCS - Shaw
23.53 Cleveland Elementary School
22.22 Shining Stars Montessori Academy PCS
21.74 Bruce-Monroe Elementary School @ Park View
21.62 Langdon Elementary School
21.43 Barnard Elementary School
21.21 Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS - East End
20.63 Friendship PCS - Southeast Elementary
20 Tyler Elementary School
20 Breakthrough Montessori PCS
19.35 Perry Street Preparatory PCS
19.3 Raymond Elementary School
18.87 Kimball Elementary School
18.18 Bunker Hill Elementary School
17.65 Bridges PCS
17.24 King Elementary School
17.02 Leckie Education Campus
17.02 Truesdell Elementary School
16.87 Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep
16.39 Creative Minds International PCS
16.07 Brightwood Elementary School
15.69 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School
15.38 Burrville Elementary School
15.38 LaSalle-Backus Elementary School
15.38 Center City PCS - Trinidad
14.71 Patterson Elementary School
14.52 Powell Elementary School
14.29 Plummer Elementary School
13.89 Takoma Elementary School
12.99 Tubman Elementary School
12.9 Whittier Elementary School
12.64 KIPP DC - Lead Academy PCS
12.2 Beers Elementary School
11.88 KIPP DC - Promise Academy PCS
11.11 Hendley Elementary School
11.11 DC Prep PCS - Anacostia Elementary School
11.11 Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary
11.11 Friendship PCS - Armstrong Elementary
10.71 Browne Education Campus
10.53 Ingenuity Prep PCS
10.2 H.D. Cooke Elementary School
10 Simon Elementary School
9.76 Friendship PCS - Online Academy
9.38 KIPP DC - Inspire Academy PCS
8.93 Friendship PCS - Blow Pierce Elementary
8.57 Excel Academy
8.47 Meridian PCS
8.11 Early Childhood Academy PCS
8.00 DC Scholars PCS
8.00 Rocketship PCS - Infinity Community Prep
7.69 Aiton Elementary School
7.69 Garfield Elementary School
7.69 Miner Elementary School
7.50 Walker-Jones Education Campus
7.41 Houston Elementary School
6.06 Randle Highlands Elementary School
5.88 KIPP DC - Quest Academy PCS
5.63 DC Prep PCS - Benning Elementary School
5.43 KIPP DC - Spring Academy PCS
4.81 KIPP DC - Heights Academy PCS


Can you please provide the same list for 3rd grade Math scores? I can't find this information broken out like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

Or maybe DC will just drop PARCC like every other state in the US already has.

And do you think the score would be different if they administered a different test? When will you finally get it? If it's not PARCC it'll be something else and the scores will still be the same and the rankings won't change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All public and charter schools in DC with a 5th grade, is what it looks like to me.

You can't compare fifth grade classes across schools though since so many kids shuffle to middle schools and better feeder patterns in fifth.

What is the best comparison?

Probably 3rd grade for how well the school did distance learning (since those kids did K and 1st remote) or 4th for the school overall. There's attrition in 4th at many schools, but the biggest loss happens all at once in 5th.

+1. Fifth grade classrooms look markedly different from every other elementary grade in schools that don't have middle school pathways. Just look at the threads on MacFarland right now. Aside from a few pioneers, everyone that can get out does get out. That leaves a much more disadvantaged population remaining in fifth. Test scores would reflect that.

3rd grade ELA proficiency (look at Burroughs!)

85.19 Ross Elementary School
84.54 Janney Elementary School
82 Key Elementary School
75.93 Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School
70.49 Stoddert Elementary School
68 Mann Elementary School
67.16 Eaton Elementary School
66.92 Lafayette Elementary School
65.91 Hearst Elementary School
60.98 Shepherd Elementary School
60.34 Brent Elementary School
57.32 Maury Elementary School
54.76 Murch Elementary School
54.69 Hyde-Addison Elementary School
54.17 Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
50.54 Bancroft Elementary School
50 Oyster-Adams Bilingual School
46.43 Latin American Montessori Bilingual PCS
46.15 Burroughs Elementary School
44.19 School-Within-School @ Goding
43.66 Washington Yu Ying PCS
42.31 Center City PCS - Brightwood
37.78 Two Rivers PCS - 4th Street
37.68 DC Bilingual PCS
37.25 Marie Reed Elementary School
36.96 Two Rivers PCS - Young Elementary School
36.11 Payne Elementary School
35.29 School Without Walls @ Francis-Stevens
35.14 Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland
34.48 Garrison Elementary School
33.33 Seaton Elementary School
33.33 Van Ness Elementary School
33.33 Center City PCS - Congress Heights
33.33 Sela PCS
31.82 Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS - Brookland
31.71 Amidon-Bowen Elementary School
29.87 Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - J.F. Cook
29.49 Watkins Elementary School (Capitol Hill Cluster)
28.3 Dorothy I. Height Elementary School
27.45 J.O. Wilson Elementary School
27.27 Thomson Elementary School
26.67 Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan
26.47 John Lewis Elementary School
26.09 Center City PCS - Petworth
25.35 DC Prep PCS - Edgewood Elementary School
25 Center City PCS - Capitol Hill
23.91 Friendship PCS - Woodridge International Elementary
23.81 Center City PCS - Shaw
23.53 Cleveland Elementary School
22.22 Shining Stars Montessori Academy PCS
21.74 Bruce-Monroe Elementary School @ Park View
21.62 Langdon Elementary School
21.43 Barnard Elementary School
21.21 Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS - East End
20.63 Friendship PCS - Southeast Elementary
20 Tyler Elementary School
20 Breakthrough Montessori PCS
19.35 Perry Street Preparatory PCS
19.3 Raymond Elementary School
18.87 Kimball Elementary School
18.18 Bunker Hill Elementary School
17.65 Bridges PCS
17.24 King Elementary School
17.02 Leckie Education Campus
17.02 Truesdell Elementary School
16.87 Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep
16.39 Creative Minds International PCS
16.07 Brightwood Elementary School
15.69 E.L. Haynes PCS - Elementary School
15.38 Burrville Elementary School
15.38 LaSalle-Backus Elementary School
15.38 Center City PCS - Trinidad
14.71 Patterson Elementary School
14.52 Powell Elementary School
14.29 Plummer Elementary School
13.89 Takoma Elementary School
12.99 Tubman Elementary School
12.9 Whittier Elementary School
12.64 KIPP DC - Lead Academy PCS
12.2 Beers Elementary School
11.88 KIPP DC - Promise Academy PCS
11.11 Hendley Elementary School
11.11 DC Prep PCS - Anacostia Elementary School
11.11 Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary
11.11 Friendship PCS - Armstrong Elementary
10.71 Browne Education Campus
10.53 Ingenuity Prep PCS
10.2 H.D. Cooke Elementary School
10 Simon Elementary School
9.76 Friendship PCS - Online Academy
9.38 KIPP DC - Inspire Academy PCS
8.93 Friendship PCS - Blow Pierce Elementary
8.57 Excel Academy
8.47 Meridian PCS
8.11 Early Childhood Academy PCS
8.00 DC Scholars PCS
8.00 Rocketship PCS - Infinity Community Prep
7.69 Aiton Elementary School
7.69 Garfield Elementary School
7.69 Miner Elementary School
7.50 Walker-Jones Education Campus
7.41 Houston Elementary School
6.06 Randle Highlands Elementary School
5.88 KIPP DC - Quest Academy PCS
5.63 DC Prep PCS - Benning Elementary School
5.43 KIPP DC - Spring Academy PCS
4.81 KIPP DC - Heights Academy PCS


Can you please provide the same list for 3rd grade Math scores? I can't find this information broken out like this.

Go Burroughs!

[Anonymous]

the test was in the spring after a full year of teaching (and two very incomplete years beforehand). i think the latin/basis 5th grade grade scores count just as much as anyones in the context of this particular cycle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On behalf of everyone looking to see hot takes on PARCC scores, can we please ask all of you who want to relitigate school closures/COVID policies/WTU complicity and how you all knew better to go to one of the other 1000 threads you've derailed and beat your dead horses there?

+10000000000000000000

Yes, nobody allowed to mention the obvious.

*drives car directly into a ditch on purpose*

Please don’t mention your hot take that we drove the car directly into a ditch on purpose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the least surprising, most depressing news we could have gotten in the first week of school. I feel deeply frustrated by the fact that many of us vocally and proactively talked about this starting in the summer of 2020 and constantly sought solutions that would prevent this from happening, and were repeatedly told to be quiet and that we were being entitled or selfish. This was inevitable and it should have been obvious to all involved when it was happening. That it wasn't is almost more alarming than the fact it happened at all.

This will all be blamed on Covid but I honestly think a lot of people should lose their jobs over this. Especially when you look at the impacts on black and Hispanic kids, and at-risk kids. We're talking 10%+ drops in proficiency across all categories and grade levels.

I also think the more people dig into the high school numbers the worse the problem will get. People on DCUM don't get it because their kids mostly do not attend the HSs in DC vaccine the biggest issues. But it's not just that scores dropped for HS students. It's that significant numbers of kids are missing altogether -- just simply do not go to school anymore and haven't since March 2020. Meaning that not only does DC have a massive drop-out/truancy issue that has worsened during the pandemic, but that these abysmal scores actually represent the performance of the kids who are most present in the schools.

We failed the kids, folks. We, the adults, failed our kids. We better come together to fix it.

I don't disagree. And I am not against focusing on standardized tests. But I can't help but thing that the results of these scores is going to be and *even more panicked PARCC prep* than in normal years. Like, it will be PARCC prep from January on instead of after Spring Break. I dunno, I wish they would also focus on other things that could address the gap, like making sure that all kids get phonics instruction and a solid math curriculum.

Or maybe DC will just drop PARCC like every other state in the US already has.

And do you think the score would be different if they administered a different test? When will you finally get it? If it's not PARCC it'll be something else and the scores will still be the same and the rankings won't change.

Any other test would take fewer days to administer, meaning more time to actually teach. So there’s that.