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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The failure of middle schools to adequately prepare students for high school should be Ferebee's focus rather than reducing admission requirements at selective schools.
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This is really it. The bottom line is that the city has created more "selective" seats than it has students and is now hard pressed to try to figure out a way to fill those selective seats. I would rather have seen a loosening of the standards to a 3, 4, or 5 on PARCC rather than eliminating them all together. Kids who get a 3 should not be precluded from the selective high schools, but I do think there should be a threshold of some sort - if not based on PARCC, maybe top 20% of middle school cohort. Or something.

My guess is that this new policy won't have much of an impact at Banneker and SWW (both of which are generally able to fill their available seats), but will really be felt at Phelps, McKinley Tech, etc. Though honestly, [b]if there was a back door to get into those schools without the required scores all along[/b] and that back door was not well known to everyone, at least now the standard will be transparent.[/quote]

There was only a 1-2 year back door. That's when PARCC proficiency was used as an entrance requirement. Back when we had DC-CAS, proficiency scores on that were used. But as has been noted, PARCC is a more difficult and controversial test.[/quote]

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