Last year's Third Grade at Janney. 30 kids in a class = only 53% proficient in English.

[Anonymous]

Janney's 3rd grade girls did much better than boys (although both were down from last year); but only about 38% of 3rd grade boys tested proficient compared to over 60% the prior year (and there were 20 more boys tested this year).

I thought I'd see a trend among 3rd grade boys in Ward 3, but it didn't hold. The gap was widest at Janney by a lot.

[Anonymous]

My DS will be at Janney next year (depending on the lottery) or the following year (when he'll be K) and this concerns me a little. I agree, one grade one year is nothing to get all up in arms about, but if this becomes a larger pattern, I may consider going private.

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Anonymous wrote:Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

Does your gloating feel good?

Living in AU Park has so many benefits, Janney is a great school, and I honestly couldn't care less about this third grade's test results. Whoever has second thoughts about their house purchase due to this needs to put things in perspective, and probably hasn't actually lived here yet.

I lived in Tenleytown which is less lame than AU Park and thought it might as well be Herndon or Germantown.

And you are < 24 years old, so your opinion on this one very specific point does not matter.

Ha ha! You and your stereotypes.

No, I am 42 and I have two children in public charters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Real Estate agents who sold you on a bill of goods WOTP beat up big time.

Does your gloating feel good?

Living in AU Park has so many benefits, Janney is a great school, and I honestly couldn't care less about this third grade's test results. Whoever has second thoughts about their house purchase due to this needs to put things in perspective, and probably hasn't actually lived here yet.

I lived in Tenleytown which is less lame than AU Park and thought it might as well be Herndon or Germantown.

And you are < 24 years old, so your opinion on this one very specific point does not matter.

Ha ha! You and your stereotypes.

No, I am 42 and I have two children in public charters.

Some people never grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DS will be at Janney next year (depending on the lottery) or the following year (when he'll be K) and this concerns me a little. I agree, one grade one year is nothing to get all up in arms about, but if this becomes a larger pattern, I may consider going private.

The thing that is concerning (as a Janney parent) is that other ward 3 school managed to get their students to test well.
And i know that they're not "teaching to the test" anymore than Janney is.

[Anonymous]

Why isn't it natural to draw a connection with the 3rd grade mega class and the lower test scores? I have also heard a lot of very negative reports from parents.

Has the principal addressed this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why isn't it natural to draw a connection with the 3rd grade mega class and the lower test scores? I have also heard a lot of very negative reports from parents.

Has the principal addressed this?

The gap seems to be on the written expression and use of conventions sections of the test.

Seems a discreet issue and one that the 4th grade teachers can emphasize this year, especially for the boys who were in that class.

This is not a crisis people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why isn't it natural to draw a connection with the 3rd grade mega class and the lower test scores? I have also heard a lot of very negative reports from parents.

Has the principal addressed this?

What a bout the lower scores and lower class sizes?

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Anonymous wrote:ugh, after just spending 1.4 on a home IB for Janney I have to say I am having 2nd thoughts. My wife and I want to be part of the resurgence of DC public schools but if they can't do better at one of their flag ship schools it leaves me with little faith.

Have to think they get rid of PK4 next year to get class sizes down at Janney. The 2014 boundary revision (or lack thereof) was a disaster for that school.

I do think that taking out one PK 4 class might be prudent, but FWIW my child's K class has 19 kids and 1st ranges from 19-22. Current 2nd grade and 4th grade seem to be the balloon years.

Yup - Kindergarten at Janney only has 99 students which is down 30 from the number that the current 4th grade class started with and someone told me pre-K took the most non siblings of the last 4 years.

FWIW our DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney and we (and everyone else we know for that matter) had no concerns about their instruction.

I know a lot of parents who were not happy.

I'm a new poster. My DC was in 3rd grade last year at Janney. DC was thriving. I cannot care less about the test.

He/she just can't take standardized tests unlike his peers elsewhere in upper NW.

Lol no, I don't know yet which scores DC got, but DC writes very well, likes to draw, plays three musical instruments and is doing Kumon 5th grade level math. DC also reads quite a bit. So I know DC is doing very well indeed, regardless of PARCC scores!

[Anonymous]

do you take your child to a kumon center or do workbooks at home? what age did you start?

[Anonymous]

You know what? Yu Ying's third grade cohort is also behind!!! I bet there's something just off about children born in... What would it be 2008? Maybe it was the weather? Sunspots? It's a bad batch of eight year olds.

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Anonymous wrote:You know what? Yu Ying's third grade cohort is also behind!!! I bet there's something just off about children born in... What would it be 2008? Maybe it was the weather? Sunspots? It's a bad batch of eight year olds.

What were the city water lead levels between 2008-2011. Only sort of kidding...

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Anonymous wrote:You know what? Yu Ying's third grade cohort is also behind!!! I bet there's something just off about children born in... What would it be 2008? Maybe it was the weather? Sunspots? It's a bad batch of eight year olds.

It was last year's 3rd graders, so 2006-2007. Maybe you're on to something

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Anonymous wrote:You know what? Yu Ying's third grade cohort is also behind!!! I bet there's something just off about children born in... What would it be 2008? Maybe it was the weather? Sunspots? It's a bad batch of eight year olds.

It was last year's 3rd graders, so 2006-2007. Maybe you're on to something

Hrm, maybe not. My own child was born in 2006 But a year ahead of these slackers. It's a good thing we still have salt mines for them all to toil in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why isn't it natural to draw a connection with the 3rd grade mega class and the lower test scores? I have also heard a lot of very negative reports from parents.

Has the principal addressed this?

The gap seems to be on the written expression and use of conventions sections of the test.

Seems a discreet issue and one that the 4th grade teachers can emphasize this year, especially for the boys who were in that class.

This is not a crisis people.

Do you mean discrete? How are your written expression and use of conventions?