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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the bigger issue are the test scores.  the HS kids are so far behind why should they bother showing up? At ballou less than 3% meet grade expectations?  how about you must have a 3 on a parcc test to move on?[/quote]

That has been shown to increase drop out rates -- same problem by a different name. The kids who aren't showing up have effectively dropped out, but they are on the books all the way to graduation.[/quote]

You need to do this from day one starting at elementary school.

DCPS should ship all youth who are over 2 years behind to either a KIPP or DC Prep school.  They are the only ones that can get results from these populations.  For the extra hard discipline cases there needs to be a military style school (this would be less than 5% per school)

by high school its too late and I agree most would drop out.  Over time kids would get on grade level following the above, until then if kids are more than 3 grad levels behind in 9th grade they should go straight to an apprenticeship program.  We are wasting time with the kids who can learn and these kids keeping them in a traditional high school program.[/quote]

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