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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fives certainly aren't rare at our DCPS.  With so many highly educated parents in the mix, including SAHMs with multiple graduate degrees, au pairs, tutors, weekend and summer enrichment camps etc., the DCPS curriculum clearly isn't hard enough for many kids.  The schools homegrown, PTA funded GT programs help, but not enough.  [/quote]
Not rare in our DCPS either. DS got both 5s, but without highly educated parents- father has high school only, I have bachelor's and even that took me 17 years , I'm not a SAHM, no Au Pairs or tutors, no enrichments. DS does play baseball and that's the only thing he does. He doesn't do  all his homework either and makes careless mistakes. He took Parcc last year for the first time and while his English was great (I'm a foreigner with bad English), his math was too close to 4.
This time I told him  not to make careless mistakes and if he gets 4 on math this year, I will start checking his homework and add extras. He is a sharp kid, but not like the gifted and hardworking ones. I think it's his peers at school that have helped him do so well. I know my child and therefore I don't think it was a hard test, at least not in 3rd grade. I'm using my glass ball here and will tell you that he will get ELA also 5 in 4th grade, but math will be 4 most likely. 
Elementary education has been great thus far, but have to keep an eye out for middle school. I wasn't even into his schooling until he showed up with 5s on Parcc. Seems like he is paying attention at school.  He is in one of the WOtP elementary schools and he was better than 75% of his classmates if I'm not mistaken.[/quote]

I'm sure your indiv child did score well, but where are all these schools that the students are doing so amazingly well, overall PARCC scores do not support that the majority of students are doing well, neither WOTP or EOTP. Banneker if I recall was an exception![/quote]
How well do you want them to do?  " Amazingly well" you mean 5s only? Found his test result and  he did better in math  than 72% students in his grade in his school and scored better than 94% of students in grade 3 in his school. I'll get the kid an icecream. There are plenty of kids with 4s and 4s/5s.[/quote]

4s and 5s are great. Elementary schools that are doing well should have 65-70% of students in that range, especially for the older grades (4th - 5th vs 3rd).

I drill down into the subgroups - students with disabilities and minorities and economically disadvantaged students. The schools that are doing "really well" should also be able to help those kids do well on PARCC. 
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Agree with your first point. Getting a 4 means you are doing really well at school. A straight A student on grade level should expect a 4. It is plain silly for PPS to suggest that a student who is doing everything expected for his or her grade is somehow not doing well enough. You may want your kids to get all 5s but it actually is not the expected that everyone "exceed expectations." If too many kids get 5s it means there is a problem with the test.

Your next point ignores a reality about schools in DC, and that is, they don't always have a student from PK4 to 5th. Many kids are being tested in schools they have attended for a year or less, so the school can neither take credit nor blame for their scores. This is especially true for schools that take in students at 4th and 5th. Some schools have a high percentage of turnover. Our school looks at how many 5th graders were so-called "lifers" and it is a surprisingly small percentage of the class even though the number of students barely changes. So the numbers never tell the full story at any school. Yet another reason why the test score driven policy is problematic.[/quote]

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