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Should the younger generation of Brent families (including us) be organizing with the Maury PTA gang to get him voted out, or at least call attention to ES challenge and MS feeder issues by shaking him up during his next race (I'm picturing "BRENT & MAURY PARENTS SEEKING A STRONG MS FEEDER FOR CANDIDATE X" signs in yards).  I'm new to politics of MS feeders, but the 4-5th grade exodus numbers at Brent speak for themselves.  Are parents being overly polite in using them to challenge politicians?

As for the question above, doesn't Jefferson Academy use some sort of lame admissions test?  Or only admit students scoring proficient on the 5th grade DC-CAS?   It can't be at all difficult for kids to enter the Academy, not with the proficiency rate just 2-3 points higher than that of the traditional program (in the low 40s).

Thanks for giving this answer regarding Jefferson Academy.  If that is true, this is terrible news-- if they were 100% proficient coming in to Jefferson Academy, it is inexcusable that they dropped down to 45%-ish in just one year time!  I rarely blame teachers for low scores, but what else could cause all those students that were proficient the year before to fall below proficient the next?  I'm sure the parents of the JEfferson Academy students will be furious with bill of goods it seems they have been sold.  At this point I wouldn't trust Jefferson Academy even if they restricted admission to those that score advanced.

I will say in defence of Tommy Wells that when I asked him 7 years ago why Brent, etc. didn't have preK 3 as at Two Rivers and other charters, he did look into it and ran with it (Perhaps I am not part of this younger generation of which you speak!  :wink:).  So I recommend trying to work with Tommy rather than giving up on him.  Let's see what he does when the scores for ward 6 schools come out with more detail.  Plus, he seems like he considering running for mayor, so there may yet be an opening for ward 6 without impolitic campaigning against Tommy.

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