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[quote=Anonymous]I think its all relative and yes we are fooling ourselves. The bar is SO LOW that any glimmer of hope makes us think "yes, its all on the upswing, Im soooo in love with our school"--I took a tour of my local elem and had the same excitement. But when I did a visit to my neices elem school in NC to eat lunch with her I was blown away at the activities and advanced curriculum (they do have test in GT but she did not make the cut). The science and math fair projects she was working on were really top notch (and she did make it to a state wide competition) in 3rd grade. There were also lots of things like "Parents Day" and "grandparents day" which I don't as much in DC, probably because that might be discrimantory. It helped give me some perspective that even the best elem schools (Janney probably the exception) are still really lagging when compared to high SES schools in other parts of the Country. [/quote]
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