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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD started at Latin at 5th grade where she was testing on the DC CAS in Reading at the low end of the Proficient scale.  In her 8th grade year she started testing Advanced in that section.  She had always tested Advanced in Math. That was/is enough for me to know that I made the right decision about enrolling her at Latin.[/quote]

That is wonderful, and I am glad it was the right decision for your daughter, but the stats show she is an outlier depending on the years she was in the MS (if she was in 8th in 2010 I retract that), and the letter to Washington Latin parents was full of misleading statements and omissions.  If I were the parent of a MS student, I would be questioning what exactly Martha Cutts learned at NCS and the integrity of the administration that sent me that letter, that failed to reveal the 4 year decline in the percentage in advanced students in the MS, deliberately misled parents about the reason for the slip in Tiers, and the decline in the MGP that also started in 2011 - the bleeding that they were apparently unable or unwilling to stanch, that made their "progress" below that of the "average" DCPS while Deal managed with its highest scores to improve significantly year over year, and the inevitable consequence.  .3 percent saved them from Tier 2 two years ago but no one noticed.  In 4 years their score went from 79 to 59.  The letter made a really bad impression on me given the stats we have seen here. I am so glad the PARCC did not come last year.  All of this would have gone completely under the radar.  Compare yourself to DCPS when convenient, ignore it when it makes you look bad in terms of MGP, hence the party line - "we scored so high it was difficult to improve" when improvement turned out to be about something else entirely.  Thank you to the parent who posted it.  [/quote]

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