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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

But they are shitty schools.  It's not just the kids, but the fact that being poor means you have fewer access to resources, and hence shitty schools (no matter who enrolls there.) Bad teachers, bad administration, bad facilities.  It's not true that your kid will do fine there just by dint of being high SES - that's your white privilege speaking.  Your kid will have to go to a crappy school, because poor people get crappy things (the definition of being poor) and may suffer, just like the poor kids.  Not as badly (because again, privilege) but to pretend like their mere presence is what changes a bad school into a good school is pretty offensive.  It's a product of income inequality plus gentrification that makes this self-evident.  In the same way that moving into a run-down house doesn't make it a nice house just because you're rich, sending your rich kid to a shitty, poor school doesn't turn it into a good school.  [/quote]

How do you reach that conclusion about the teachers and administrators?  Because they haven't solved poverty?   For as much as DC gripes about facilities deficiencies there's little evidence that modernized facilities improve learning.  The teachers and administrators can only serve the families that enroll.  If that happens to be predominantly at risk and/FARM students then your common core standards for quality assessment are largely irrelevant.

You're the one speaking from a position of profound entitlement.[/quote]

I'm not the shitty schools poster, but more power to her.  Profound entitlement?  Knock off the holier-than-thou shaming already.  A school in which 12% of 6th graders test proficient is shitty by any measure of course, and not necessarily because teachers and admins there aren't doing a good job.  [/quote]

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