DCI or Deal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to burst your bubble, but these days, there are several EotP DCPS programs that are all-around better than any of the charters. We switched from one of the most popular charters to an EotP DCPS - so much better on almost every level. Don't tell me that you really want immersion. It's not immersion at the immersion charters. There aren't nearly enough native speakers, teacher turnover is far too high and weak admins aren't uncommon. You can do the immersion at home with au pairs if you can afford it, but that's where the immersion ends if you don't speak the target language at home.

Angry and bitter much? People who act this way and attack and feel like they have to justify their choices in such a negative way....... it says much about their insecurities. You don’t know several DCPS EOTP programs if your child has had experiences in just 1 of them. You don’t know that your program is better than all of the immersion charters unless your child has been a student in all of them.

[Anonymous]

Well folks, if you did not know already, DC is about to relax the requirements on who can take the Walls test. See article below. So you don’t even need to get a 4 on PARCC to take the Walls test. That’s right, you don’t even need to be at least competent at grade level. Oh and they want all wards of the city to be representative in the school.

Just proves again what DCPS goals are - equity and mediocrity.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-rejects-reprieve-for-students-ineligible-for-school-without-walls/2019/02/19/23821b4a-3453-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.19690de59e87

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well folks, if you did not know already, DC is about to relax the requirements on who can take the Walls test. See article below. So you don’t even need to get a 4 on PARCC to take the Walls test. That’s right, you don’t even need to be at least competent at grade level. Oh and they want all wards of the city to be representative in the school.

Just proves again what DCPS goals are - equity and mediocrity.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-rejects-reprieve-for-students-ineligible-for-school-without-walls/2019/02/19/23821b4a-3453-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.19690de59e87

You can send your kids to Banneker. They aren't lowering the PARCC bar there.

All this policy is doing is going back to the way it was. They always balanced it out geographically and demographically, and the top 140 scorers are not the ones who get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well folks, if you did not know already, DC is about to relax the requirements on who can take the Walls test. See article below. So you don’t even need to get a 4 on PARCC to take the Walls test. That’s right, you don’t even need to be at least competent at grade level. Oh and they want all wards of the city to be representative in the school.

Just proves again what DCPS goals are - equity and mediocrity.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-rejects-reprieve-for-students-ineligible-for-school-without-walls/2019/02/19/23821b4a-3453-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.19690de59e87

You can send your kids to Banneker. They aren't lowering the PARCC bar there.

All this policy is doing is going back to the way it was. They always balanced it out geographically and demographically, and the top 140 scorers are not the ones who get in.

DCPS made it clear that the Banneker expansion was to help at risk kids. What makes you think kids who are not at risk are going to get an equal shot?

You are right Walls is going backwards. Backwards to lowering the standards and bar for admission.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well folks, if you did not know already, DC is about to relax the requirements on who can take the Walls test. See article below. So you don’t even need to get a 4 on PARCC to take the Walls test. That’s right, you don’t even need to be at least competent at grade level. Oh and they want all wards of the city to be representative in the school.

Just proves again what DCPS goals are - equity and mediocrity.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-rejects-reprieve-for-students-ineligible-for-school-without-walls/2019/02/19/23821b4a-3453-11e9-854a-7a14d7fec96a_story.html?utm_term=.19690de59e87

You can send your kids to Banneker. They aren't lowering the PARCC bar there.

All this policy is doing is going back to the way it was. They always balanced it out geographically and demographically, and the top 140 scorers are not the ones who get in.

DCPS made it clear that the Banneker expansion was to help at risk kids. What makes you think kids who are not at risk are going to get an equal shot?

You are right Walls is going backwards. Backwards to lowering the standards and bar for admission.

SAT is not the be all and end all but pretty important with college admissions. Walls scores are significantly higher than Bannekers. It will likely go down as admission criteria also goes down.

[Anonymous]

so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

This was the first and only year Walls ever used the PARCC for admissions. It has always used its own test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sorry to burst your bubble, but these days, there are several EotP DCPS programs that are all-around better than any of the charters. We switched from one of the most popular charters to an EotP DCPS - so much better on almost every level. Don't tell me that you really want immersion. It's not immersion at the immersion charters. There aren't nearly enough native speakers, teacher turnover is far too high and weak admins aren't uncommon. You can do the immersion at home with au pairs if you can afford it, but that's where the immersion ends if you don't speak the target language at home.

Angry and bitter much? People who act this way and attack and feel like they have to justify their choices in such a negative way....... it says much about their insecurities. You don’t know several DCPS EOTP programs if your child has had experiences in just 1 of them. You don’t know that your program is better than all of the immersion charters unless your child has been a student in all of them.

The highest-performing and most popular schools in this particular City have always been DCPS programs in the most affluent areas.

Charters don't have the demographics to compete in a city without elementary or middle school test-in GT programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

This was the first and only year Walls ever used the PARCC for admissions. It has always used its own test.

Apparently from my understanding, they did not take the top scoring students from their tests before. They tried to get an even representation from all wards and also demographically. Then they changed it to the top scorers and screening criteria of PARCC 4 or 5. Now they are going back to the old system. So to answer your question, no it’s not going to be the top scoring kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

This was the first and only year Walls ever used the PARCC for admissions. It has always used its own test.

Apparently from my understanding, they did not take the top scoring students from their tests before. They tried to get an even representation from all wards and also demographically. Then they changed it to the top scorers and screening criteria of PARCC 4 or 5. Now they are going back to the old system. So to answer your question, no it’s not going to be the top scoring kids.

Translation: It will not be just the advanced top performing kids anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

This was the first and only year Walls ever used the PARCC for admissions. It has always used its own test.

Apparently from my understanding, they did not take the top scoring students from their tests before. They tried to get an even representation from all wards and also demographically. Then they changed it to the top scorers and screening criteria of PARCC 4 or 5. Now they are going back to the old system. So to answer your question, no it’s not going to be the top scoring kids.

Translation: It will not be just the advanced top performing kids anymore.

So if you are an average student in ward 7 or 8, you have a much better chance of getting in then if you are a top student in ward 3 basically if above is the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

This was the first and only year Walls ever used the PARCC for admissions. It has always used its own test.

Apparently from my understanding, they did not take the top scoring students from their tests before. They tried to get an even representation from all wards and also demographically. Then they changed it to the top scorers and screening criteria of PARCC 4 or 5. Now they are going back to the old system. So to answer your question, no it’s not going to be the top scoring kids.

That’s the way it was yet Walls students still managed to get nearly 100% on PARCC. Do you all really think a fluke of getting a 3 one year should shape the entire future of high school and inevitably college? Or should another shot at a test and interview help balance that one time you got a 3 because you couldn’t sleep the night before because of XYZ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:so will relaxing the PARCC standards at Walls actually lead to those kids being admitted? Don't they just interview the top 250 (or similar) scoring kids on the Walls test?
Is this standard also being changed?

This was the first and only year Walls ever used the PARCC for admissions. It has always used its own test.

No. A proficient score on DCCAS was part of the process. The 3-4 year recent period of not using any statewide test to determine who could take the Walls test is the outlier.

Back then though there were fewer wealthy kids in the city and the SWW student body was more diverse economically.

Why should Banneker and McKinley and Coolidge Early College use PARCC but Walls shouldn’t? It just doesn’t make sense.

[Anonymous]

Where are people getting the info that they have lowered the bar for Walls, my understanding, and I looked at this alit as my child is going there this fall, is that they have always based admissions on their own test, those that score in the top 250 scores get an interview. They will tell you what the test score cut off is and you can ask for your child’s score. The interview process is a little opaque but getting to the interview is not.

The only thing this article pertains to is whether a student has the opportunity to sit for the test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are people getting the info that they have lowered the bar for Walls, my understanding, and I looked at this alit as my child is going there this fall, is that they have always based admissions on their own test, those that score in the top 250 scores get an interview. They will tell you what the test score cut off is and you can ask for your child’s score. The interview process is a little opaque but getting to the interview is not.

The only thing this article pertains to is whether a student has the opportunity to sit for the test.

People don’t believe or trust that they SWWs adheres to the top 240-250 scores to create the interview pool.

But more broadly this hysteria is about people thinking their kid absolutely deserves a spot and not fathoming that it could go to someone else on the merits.