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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the Janney parent above and there is zero formal differentiation at Janney.  My kids did (and do) well with no effort and always get 5's on the PARCC. When we asked about more, it was suggested that they join the lunch time math club.  My neighbor's kid is a true prodigy (doing math 5 grades up, etc).  The parents had many meetings and were also provided with nothing except for suggestions about the math club and for a few weeks one year their kids was given extra work-sheets.  They were far more frustrated than we were because they have a kid who truly needs differentiation and was bored out of his mind (but well behaved because he's a quiet kid) and the school provided nothing year after year.   This school is 100% in the business of teaching AT GRADE LEVEL and providing a ton of support for kids who are behind.  But zero, nothing for kids who are ahead, even many years ahead.

Maybe it's different across the park where the array of ability is much wider.  At a school like Janney, I'd guess you have 75% of kids functioning very easily at grade level.  20% who lag behind in some way and 5% who are ahead. [/quote]

Murch differentiates and it isn't a PTA thing, and teachers have professional development on how to do it well. It is school driven coming from the top, not from the PTA.

Janney apparently doesn't. I've been told by teachers there (and a few parents who switched schools and were shocked at the difference) that Janney is all about the PARCC and teaching to the test, so teaching ahead doesn't help them (and may hurt). But they do get the good test scores out of kids.[/quote]

Right, and[b] I have been told by my 8th grader (a Janney grad, high performer, most advanced math, yada, yada, yada) that the strongest students come from Janney and Lafayette, then Murch and Eaton[/b] and I don’t hear a lot about Bancroft and Shepherd likely because the groups are smaller.  My child is a fairly astute observer and in many ways not a Janney booster.  This is the last 8th grade class where Eaton had the right to attend for those that might be confused by this list.[/quote]

You actually have these kinds of conversations with your eighth grader? Honestly, this is one the most pathetic things I’ve ever read on DCUM.  Obviously the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.[/quote]

Plus it isn't true.[/quote]

yes, what a totally bizarre conversation to have with your kid.  I have 2 kids at Deal (from a JKLM feeder) and I don't think either one could even tell me who the "strongest students" are.   Academics are important to both of my kids--they just through all the Deal hoops to get As--but I don't think they could begin to tell me how all their friends do in school.  And we would never talk about it together.  [/quote]

Same same same.

(Although this sub-thread does validate my kid’s observation that the most obnoxious kids at Deal come from Janney.) [/quote]

I did not say anything about grades FWIW, I was responding to an anonymous statement that Janney is all about the PARCC and teaching to the test, which has not been my experience over many years.  Also, all the students at Deal know who is on the honor roll (As and Bs) and principals honor roll (all As) every quarter of every year because each team has an assembly to recognize it (and other awards) so you are nuts if you think your kids do not know who are getting all As.  There is often (if not always) a list posted online about it.  There are all these random threads on here with this battle amongst the all really good schools wanting to one up each other and I had a random conversation with my child a while ago and this came out.  Thought I would share as it is just as relevant as anonymous gossip about teaching to the test, which was attempted to be legitimized with attribution to unnamed parents and teachers.  [/quote]

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