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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hate that we're talking about "shitty" schools. I really don't know that the test scores reflect how good or bad a school is in DC. Rather it reflects the social and economic capital of the families that send their children there. Median Growth Percentile has been suggested to do a much better job at reflecting the performance of a school. Jefferson's scores there are a little better than Brent's, although by this metric, all our kids should go to DC Prep Edgewood's middle school.

I wish people would stop talking about not sending their kids to bad schools when what they should be saying is they don't want to send their kids to schools with a lot of poor kids who aren't performing at grade level. Which is fair enough.[/quote]

Bingo!  the first part at least.  The sad truth about the second part is that the students without the poverty barrier will do fine even when forced to slum it with the poors.  This whole notion of cohorts is silly -- DCPS teaches at grade level no matter the grade level.  Only in MS does SEM come into play at some schools and it's not a terribly high bar but better than nothing.  The downside is that DCPS doesn't really care if your child is beyond grade level.  They do care if your child is below.[/quote]

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