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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Eastern is not a dystopian hellscape.  Let’s all sign our kids up!”[/quote]

I mean - I’ve recently reconnected with a bunch of friends from HS. Some extremely accomplished but with lasting emotional scars from being pushed by their parents. But we all have the same memory of how unstressful and fun high school was despite anything personal we had going on. It’s really been something on my mind lately - at the risk of sounding arrogant I know my kid is very smart and will make is way in the knowledge economy. I’m more concerned with the values he learns, how he makes friends, handles different kinds of people, and all of that. Am I saying we will choose Eastern? Definitely not with any kind of assurance. But I can think of way worse outcomes than a “less rigorous” HS experience. [/quote]

The problem is that the "less rigorous" schools in DCPS are actually not adequate to prepare a kid for college. I think fewer than 20 percent of students who graduate from DCPS end up graduating from college. These schools are just so far from the Palo Alto/Fairfax County suburban pressure cookers.

I sent my kids to Title 1 elementary schools and was happy as a clam for years, but when we hit middle school, i somehow woke up. There is a narrow path to success in DC, and if you want your kid to be even remotely competitive with their peers around the country, you do need to send them to the best middle and high schools in the city that you can find (NONE of which are at all comparable to the best high schools in suburban districts, but a handful of which are good enough.)[/quote]

There are so many moving parts and variables in this thread. Some of the things being said about suburban schools might be accurate but there are also other very specific and different reasons for test scores, graduation rates etc that that are not directly linked to the instruction in high school. Not saying that they aren't significant and shouldn't be addressed but it is very much an issue of correlation vs. causation.
And to the most recent poster, this doesn't need to turn into an EH or SH bashing thread. There are families at these schools who chose the school and are happy there and doing well. Totally other elephant in the room is the achievement gaps between various subgroups. A prior poster already mentioned how unhelpful it is to judge an entire school on a few data points. I agree with this for multiple reasons - one being that there is more to measure at a school that can't be captured by data, but separately the data gets really skewed and not as useful.[/quote]

The "few data points" are math and ELA scores that demonstrate nearly the entire school is significantly below grade level.  I'm not sure why you don't consider those to be "useful" data points.  Maybe the word you're looking for is "inconvenient?"[/quote]

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