Was your child born in 2007? That was a big birth year in DC. |
Most 6th graders have no clue on notes or study skills.... |
The PARCC and SSAT have nothing to do with one another. Good performance on one is not going to correlate to good performance on another. |
Interesting. The SSAT can predict the SAT. And the kids in our upper NW elementary bomb the SSAT while they do well on the PARCC. I still don’t understand why they haven’t been taught the material in DCPS to do well on the SSAT, especially the math section. |
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Huge overeaction, OP. |
No classes have 40+ students, or anywhere near it. |
I heard it was closer to 60 |
It is disheartening to read that, in sum, nothing has changed at DCPS for 40+ years. |
I’m not sure you can conclude that from one post. Another anecdote: my DD and a couple of her friends were all admitted to privates from their EOTP school last year, including one to a “Big 3.” It’s hard to draw conclusions without knowing all the info. |
As a long-time dcum participant, I completely agree. And I smh too, because as a private school parent (for 10 years now) I know the odds are much more difficult than the cavalier posters realize. Note that's very true of elementary school, too. A variation on the theme is the parent who assumes they can simply switch their rising 2nd grader from Watkins / noyes / seaton to a non-parochial private if the mood overtakes them. I see them on tours at my kids'' school every year. There just isn't space, especially in those non-expansion years when it seems the "fine for ECE" dcps and dcpcs are no longer working. |
This post is full of nonsense. Fifth isn't an entry year anymore at the more competitive schools, not for a decade, and the fact that this poster thinks it is should make you suspicious of all his other assertions. |
Did you need financial aid? |
You'd better believe that 6th graders at the 2 DC independent schools I know do have study skills. Because these 2 schools have been teaching them routinely and pointedly for years. I think that may be OP's point. Education is not some fungible good that you can just switch out and a dcps (or mcps or Arl or ...) isn't interchangeable with each other or with 6 years in elementary at an independent where they explicitly teach note taking and study skills. |
P.S. I’m not trying to argue that it’s easy to get into private from DCPS. I’m simply saying it’s tough to draw conclusions with incomplete data—specifically, you’d need the rate of application and acceptance from DCPS students in a given year. Any you’d probably want to compare it to similar data from MoCo and NoVa school systems. OP said she aimed high; so in this case we’d have to know this info at the top privates in the area. I’m not sure if this sort of info is available anywhere. |