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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"3) if a child doesn't pass standardized tests, DCPS needs to focus like crazy to get those kids up to speed. Put them in different schools that provide an alternative."

How about give them different parents?

Also, the white kid at Wilson  was probably proficient or advanced on the standarized tests, like most other white and Asian kids at Wilson.[/quote]

On further reflection I'd liek to change 3) to "Place children that don't pass the standardized tests in a different classroom."  Really no need for an entirely different school-- just need the teachers that are the very best at bringing lagging teachers up to speed.   Regarding "different parents", I actually did consider proposing a boarding school type situation as a couple successful charters do this-- but for elementary school and middle school, it just seems too messed up.  Maybe give parents with failing students a list of suggestions to help bring the kid up to speed, like "no TV/non-educational screen time until grades improve".  Seems a bit "nanny state" to make such a recommendation, but I bet it would really work.

If non-proficient kids were taught separately from proficient kids, the proficient kids would be able to dig deeper in their classrooms beyond mere proficiency into true mastery - beyond regurgitating facts they could connect those facts with their own original ideas.[/quote]

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