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[quote=Anonymous]My nephew attends a Title I school in Silver Spring and he is thriving. He's a super-smartypants 1st grader reading at above-average 2nd grade level and doing advanced 2nd grade math.  I suggest you go and speak with the principal to ask questions and find out more about how the school operates. FWIW, I've never put much thought into test scores b/c they reflect how other students are doing --- not how my little one is doing (I really only care about my son's test scores). At a Title I school, you need to assume that many of those kids aren't going to do as well on tests for a variety of legitimate reasons that have very little to do with the teaching or the classroom environment or the principal. Kids who barely speak English must take those tests and their scores are factored into the average. Your child just might be the star student in the class who the teacher pushes to excell (that's how it is with my nephew).  I know families who pulled their kids out of Catholic schools to send them to their neighborhood Title I school to have them challenged more and to get them on the track for a middle school magnet program.  They met with the principal and essentially put the burden on her to convince them to enroll their child --- and she had to pitch a plan to get him into the magnet program as well.  True story. [/quote]

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