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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS.  With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids.  The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.  [/quote]
Not rare in our DCPS either. DS got both 5s, but without highly educated parents- father has high school only, I have bachelor's and even that took me 17 years , I'm not a SAHM, no Au Pairs or tutors, no enrichments. DS does play baseball and that's the only thing he does. He doesn't do  all his homework either and makes careless mistakes. He took Parcc last year for the first time and while his English was great (I'm a foreigner with bad English), his math was too close to 4.
This time I told him  not to make careless mistakes and if he gets 4 on math this year, I will start checking his homework and add extras. He is a sharp kid, but not like the gifted and hardworking ones. I think it's his peers at school that have helped him do so well. I know my child and therefore I don't think it was a hard test, at least not in 3rd grade. I'm using my glass ball here and will tell you that he will get ELA also 5 in 4th grade, but math will be 4 most likely. 
Elementary education has been great thus far, but have to keep an eye out for middle school. I wasn't even into his schooling until he showed up with 5s on Parcc. Seems like he is paying attention at school.  He is in one of the WOtP elementary schools and he was better than 75% of his classmates if I'm not mistaken.[/quote]

I'm sure your indiv child did score well, but where are all these schools that the students are doing so amazingly well, overall PARCC scores do not support that the majority of students are doing well, neither WOTP or EOTP. Banneker if I recall was an exception![/quote]

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