DC CAS scores to be released 7/31/14

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Anonymous wrote:Do these score make anyone else want to just flee DC? It's like we're trying so hard to get into a handful of supposedly HRCSs when their scores are actually not that great.

Yep. Makes moving seem like a no-brainer.

Not for me. I see more and more families with kids moving into our neighborhood and their dedication to their schools - both DCPS & HRCS. I also see the unfortunate effects of displacement of those in poverty - many rent are being forced to move to PG County. I see this happening faster than the research is reporting it. Barry Farms and Anacostia development is just one example. Yes, we are talking 5+ years out - but my PS3 child will likely be fine in 3rd grade and beyond.

Good luck, but Middle class parents have been saying this line for 5+ years now...

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The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

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Anonymous wrote:DCPS Elementary Schools scoring above 90:

JKLM....RS

90 is a pretty high bar. You're basically filtering for demographics at that point.

Among the testing grades Ross remains a racially and economically diverse school, at least at the moment. In fact, one of the big draws for us a few years ago when we were searching for a school for DC was that there was no achievement gap between black and white kids.

Feeling very proud of our school, our hard-working students, and our excellent faculty and staff today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Do these score make anyone else want to just flee DC? It's like we're trying so hard to get into a handful of supposedly HRCSs when their scores are actually not that great.

Yep. Makes moving seem like a no-brainer.

Not for me. I see more and more families with kids moving into our neighborhood and their dedication to their schools - both DCPS & HRCS. I also see the unfortunate effects of displacement of those in poverty - many rent are being forced to move to PG County. I see this happening faster than the research is reporting it. Barry Farms and Anacostia development is just one example. Yes, we are talking 5+ years out - but my PS3 child will likely be fine in 3rd grade and beyond.

Good luck, but Middle class parents have been saying this line for 5+ years now...

Right - they were counting on Michelle Rhee to save the day. Well the day has come.....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS Elementary Schools scoring above 90:

JKLM....RS

90 is a pretty high bar. You're basically filtering for demographics at that point.

Among the testing grades Ross remains a racially and economically diverse school, at least at the moment. In fact, one of the big draws for us a few years ago when we were searching for a school for DC was that there was no achievement gap between black and white kids.

Feeling very proud of our school, our hard-working students, and our excellent faculty and staff today.

Not a Ross parent but I saw your scores and was totally impressed. Congrats to your school!

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Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

I bet a lot of parents moping about these low scores right now, are also thinking about the real estate investment they need to protect. Maybe that will get them wrokig harder for the neighborhood school -- and will get DCPS to cooperate with them.

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Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

Plenty of singles and dinks flocking to the city to make up for families who flee because of schools.

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Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

OMG you people are so full of yourselves.

Do you think you're the first people to think of / threaten taking their "tax dollars elsewhere" because of the shitty schools? FFS. REALLY!?!?!

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Not a Ross parent but I saw your scores and was totally impressed. Congrats to your school!

Thank you. That's very kind of you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new DC mayor should take note of the possibility that the DC tax base may decline due to the decision of higher SES families to flee to the suburbs where they would have a better school system. Eventually this school leadership will take the city down.

OMG you people are so full of yourselves.

Do you think you're the first people to think of / threaten taking their "tax dollars elsewhere" because of the shitty schools? FFS. REALLY!?!?!

So sadly true. = smart flight. Regarles of race

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly! I don’t have a personal ax to grind with any particular charters. I'm just wondering aloud why the charters listed above are so popular on these boards, yet their scores don’t seem to have earned them that love. Why don’t I hear more about KIPP, TM and the others on DCUM?

Those schools are predominately AA. They spend most of their time testing and not much else. Good scores but not well rounded. They work very hard to earn those scores. The other charters have a mix of populations and the kids come already advanced/proficient. Just like the JKLM schools. If A students get adv scores good. If C students get Adv scores, miraculous. Two sides of coin.

Aren't Stokes, Cap City, etc predominately AA? There has to be a better explanation.

Cap City is not predominately AA. They have lots of new teachers who come through programs with very little training.

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Anonymous wrote:Staff turnover = Assistant principal, Sp Ed Coordinator, Sp Ed teacher - all were on the team that coordinated taking DC CAS.

But you're talking as if it's a constant, yearly thing. I don't know why these specific staff members left, including whether they chose to leave or it was felt they weren't working out. The fact that 3 people are changing in one year hardly equates to regular, annual major staff turnover, which is how your previous comment sounded.

When I looked over the Yu Ying Annual Report, they listed no teachers with over 5 years teaching experience, and many had only 1 or 2 years under their belts.

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Anonymous wrote:Staff turnover = Assistant principal, Sp Ed Coordinator, Sp Ed teacher - all were on the team that coordinated taking DC CAS.

But you're talking as if it's a constant, yearly thing. I don't know why these specific staff members left, including whether they chose to leave or it was felt they weren't working out. The fact that 3 people are changing in one year hardly equates to regular, annual major staff turnover, which is how your previous comment sounded.

When I looked over the Yu Ying Annual Report, they listed no teachers with over 5 years teaching experience, and many had only 1 or 2 years under their belts.

That's what you're basing this comment on? You're "tired of all the staff turnover" because... you read what you think indicates it in the YY Annual Report?? Alriiiighty then...

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When I looked over the Yu Ying Annual Report, they listed no teachers with over 5 years teaching experience, and many had only 1 or 2 years under their belts.

At least they publish these sad facts. They won't fess up to how many bilingual Chinese-speaking kids they enroll, although Chinese teachers tell me that the number is close to zero (I speak two dialects of Chinese). Even if the teachers had huge teaching experience, an immersion school can only do much with one-way immersion of course (where kids learn the target language only from teachers, not from peers).

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When I looked over the Yu Ying Annual Report, they listed no teachers with over 5 years teaching experience, and many had only 1 or 2 years under their belts.

At least they publish these sad facts. They won't fess up to how many bilingual Chinese-speaking kids they enroll, although Chinese teachers tell me that the number is close to zero (I speak two dialects of Chinese). Even if the teachers had huge teaching experience, an immersion school can only do much with one-way immersion of course (where kids learn the target language only from teachers, not from peers).

The DC CAS does not test for Mandarin, one-way, two-way or whatever, so WTF are you adding to the discussion?!?