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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think it's hypocritical not to want your own kid be taught to the test, yet look at test scores to estimate the percentage of high achieving kids, since it's the only data available to get some glimpse at academic performance of a student body. The only possible proxies for this data are SES and race, which are obviously problematic to use.

I wouldn't look at test scores as a measure of school quality, but as a rough indicator of the quality of the students. Minute differences are meaningless, like those between various WOTP elementaries, but it does give you the big picture regarding the peer group, FWIW.[/quote]

Did you say that?  Children are either low quality or high quality?  Children?  You are racist AF & classist AF!
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I'm a new poster and I think this is an over reaction.  I thought the OP meant that some kids are just better students than others.  Which is a completely reasonable statement, and in my opinion, obviously true as well.[/quote]

Yes, thank you. I also realized after I posted that the way I said it might be taken the wrong way. I wasn't talking about the "quality" of the kids as human beings.[/quote]

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