Jefferson Academy Kool-Aid
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Anonymous
| -^^^ interesting and not surprising. But what is your point when it comes to Jefferson where very different populations could co-exist with the proper structures in place? Or do you prefer to shrug and wave bye bye to wealthier and/or more academically prepared students as happens now |
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I do not have a solution - unfortunately.
I only posted this in response to the Diane Ravitch post -- the problem goes a lot deeper than ed reformers vs traditional school advocates. |
Anonymous
What would those "proper structures" consist of and how do you propose holding DCPS accountable in terms of implementing, funding and supporting them? How does DCPS replicate Deal programming for all at a school with 300 students? |
Anonymous
you are incoherent |
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the continued hubris of the Hill parents who blithely assume 6th grade admission to Sidwell, Maret & GDS ... adorable! "Golly, maybe we'll just have to enroll at Sidwell or NCS a couple years earlier. What a shame, because we LOVE Brent!" It's okay though, since if they don't get into those schools they'll just move to NoVA and their kids will walk right into TJ. |
Anonymous
the continued hubris of the Hill parents who blithely assume 6th grade admission to Sidwell, Maret & GDS ... adorable! "Golly, maybe we'll just have to enroll at Sidwell or NCS a couple years earlier. What a shame, because we LOVE Brent!" It's okay though, since if they don't get into those schools they'll just move to NoVA and their kids will walk right into TJ. Feel better about your own insecurities and inadequacies? |
Anonymous
It's okay though, since if they don't get into those schools they'll just move to NoVA and their kids will walk right into TJ. Feel better about your own insecurities and inadequacies? TJ is a tougher admission than Sidwell. You have to know a lot of stuff. Sidwell you need to know some stuff and some people |
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Not buying it. For what I've observed, DC privates are mainly interested in admitting the strongest and most talented students (at art, music, drama, sports etc.) they can recruit, particularly minorities.
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Anonymous
TJ is a tougher admission than Sidwell. It's also heavily skewed towards Asian uber achievers |
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They're both extremely tough to get into for MS/HS. A friend of mine got a 6th grade spot at Sidwell, there were around 150 applicants for 10 spots. Another friend got a spot at TJ, 13,000+ applicants for 900 spots. You do the math.
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Excerpt from Brent newsletter:
"Jefferson Academy ... is the 4th highest ranked middle school in the District of Columbia based on last year's PARCC test scores. The staff and principal at Jefferson have a strong record of academic success as shown by the year-over-year improvement in test scores by the students." Someone has a future in writing advertisements in the field of residential real estate. |
Anonymous
I truly do not think Jefferson outscored Latin, Basis, Deal, Hardy and SH. Did it? |
Anonymous
Did you do the math? The math is about the same for the numbers you quoted, if you wanted your post to stand on the "math". There are clearly other important differences, but just didn't want the math to get in the way here, so to speak. 10/150 = 0.0666 900/13,000 = 0.0692 |
Anonymous
Not surprising given that a similar 'sale' took place about 10+ years ago when IB families started attending Brent again . . . . it was a skillful PR job back then as well. |
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Apples and oranges. The achievement gap is obviously much narrow for 3 and 4 year olds, the ages of the first cohort of in-boundary kids to attend Brent around 2002, than for high SES and low SES 6th graders. Also, most of the IB families lived with a 10-minute walk of the school, not so for Jefferson. I don't think it was a skillful PR job back that drew families in as much as a high SES friendly principal and the power of interconnectivity in the neighborhood. The principal was close to retirement and unafraid to make waves, and had a politically powerful spouse who helped her draw in resources to Brent. Many of us got to know families who were trying Brent at Turtle Park, church, dance and swimming classes, CHAW or wherever else around the neighborhood, and were willing to give Brent a try because friends had become advocates. Where are the parallel developments at Jefferson? I see the link between parents of little kids unable to afford private school desperate to stay on the Hill and parents of 11 year-olds desperate to stay on the Hill, but it pretty much ends there for me.
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