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[quote=Anonymous]Former DCPS teacher here.

Grades are inflated at a lot of schools. To meet numbers, a lot of failing students are given BS work at the end of the quarter and receive a D. That doesn't sit well with some teachers who feel that it's unfair to the students who actually earned a D, so rather than stand their ground, they take the "true" D student and bump them up to a C. Then there's the other issue of students getting grades based on behavior instead of academic ability. Schools like Banneker and Walls have mechanisms in place to filter out the true high achievers.

Why don't other schools do this?
There's a lot of posturing going on in the District. The students who have been led to believe that they are high achievers typically have better behavior and more focus than their peers, so while they can't get in to Walls or Banneker, they should be able to go somewhere with students on the same level. Hence the schools with lower requirements.

And under that tier are a handful of charters who take kids through a lottery and ship the misbehaving ones right back to their neighborhood schools any time after count day. The neighborhood schools are at the bottom rung in my opinion. Not because of the quality of the teachers or because of the quality of the majority of the students. It's simply because the other schools have weeded out all of the high flyers who would have balanced things out. This would never happen, but I would love to see what would happen if all students and teachers were subject to a city-wide lottery.  [/quote]

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