What's up with Piney Branch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Not sure that's great advice. This problem exists throughout the county especially on this particular statistic, 5th-grade math on PARCC. Here are a few scores off GS for schools that otherwise do well. This problem isn't limited to your school just more pronounced because it's more diverse.

Rock Creek Forest
Black 11%

Chevy Chase Elementary
Black 20%

Garret Park Elementary
Black 21%

Wish the county could do more to close the achivement gap.

OP again. I think you're right that this is a problem at many schools. I guess I was just surprised when I saw the ESS stats that there was such a difference. Maybe if I had looked at other schools I wouldn't have been as worried that there was something Piney Branch specifically wasn't doing right. On the one hand I think we do a good job at educating our son and he's very bright, but I wonder about whether he will not get the education he needs/deserves at schools where such a high percentage of black students are failing.

seems like these groups are doing very poorly at every school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Cold Spring CES is also diverse. We have lots of Asians and even a black kid in one class.

Is this a bad joke or just really out of touch?

Have you spent much time here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Using one data point from one year that is itself unusual but while cherry picking schools seems dishonest.

At this point in the discussion, people have posted data points from several grades, subjects, and years. Going back through, I've seen 5th grade math, 3rd grade English, 4th grade math, and then each subject with all three years of testing represented.

The accusation of cherry picking is also weird because most folks were comparing the three schools that pull children from Takoma Park, which is as apples-to-apples of a comparison as possible.

[Anonymous]

No doubt the data was cherry picked to suit the OPs narrative. It wasn’t about the schools average over several years but singled out the most extreme cases possible. It takes less than a minutes to sift an entirely different combination of numbers that paints altogether different picture. Sadly the only constant is there are no schools where these groups aren’t failing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Not sure that's great advice. This problem exists throughout the county especially on this particular statistic, 5th-grade math on PARCC. Here are a few scores off GS for schools that otherwise do well. This problem isn't limited to your school just more pronounced because it's more diverse.

Rock Creek Forest
Black 11%

Chevy Chase Elementary
Black 20%

Garret Park Elementary
Black 21%

Wish the county could do more to close the achivement gap.

OP again. I think you're right that this is a problem at many schools. I guess I was just surprised when I saw the ESS stats that there was such a difference. Maybe if I had looked at other schools I wouldn't have been as worried that there was something Piney Branch specifically wasn't doing right. On the one hand I think we do a good job at educating our son and he's very bright, but I wonder about whether he will not get the education he needs/deserves at schools where such a high percentage of black students are failing.

seems like these groups are doing very poorly at every school.

Don't think this is true- check out: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/show/5.page

Op might want to consider schools like those listed, with large groups of high performing minorities, so that her child does not get unfairly grouped with struggling kids. Even a poorer rated school with a higher performing cohort might be a better option for her son.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Not sure that's great advice. This problem exists throughout the county especially on this particular statistic, 5th-grade math on PARCC. Here are a few scores off GS for schools that otherwise do well. This problem isn't limited to your school just more pronounced because it's more diverse.

Rock Creek Forest
Black 11%

Chevy Chase Elementary
Black 20%

Garret Park Elementary
Black 21%

Wish the county could do more to close the achivement gap.

OP again. I think you're right that this is a problem at many schools. I guess I was just surprised when I saw the ESS stats that there was such a difference. Maybe if I had looked at other schools I wouldn't have been as worried that there was something Piney Branch specifically wasn't doing right. On the one hand I think we do a good job at educating our son and he's very bright, but I wonder about whether he will not get the education he needs/deserves at schools where such a high percentage of black students are failing.

seems like these groups are doing very poorly at every school.

Don't think this is true- check out: http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/show/5.page

Op might want to consider schools like those listed, with large groups of high performing minorities, so that her child does not get unfairly grouped with struggling kids. Even a poorer rated school with a higher performing cohort might be a better option for her son.

Sorry bad link:
http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/722121.page

[Anonymous]

To answer the question about what ESS does differently, take a look at these articles:

https://www.milkeneducatorawards.org/newsroom/press-releases/view/md-4th-grade-math-teacher-earns-25000-milken-educator-award

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/east-silver-spring-elementary-teacher-honored-with-one-of-40-national-milken-educator-awards/

Although I doubt having one really great teacher can make a big dent in test scores across the board, it's certainly worth pointing out that he's using different teaching methods in the classroom to reach his 4th grade math students...

[Anonymous]

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