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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's so funny to me how the zeitgeist of DCUM seems to be:

JLKM/mostly white charter school scores go down/have big achievement gap: test scores don't matter as much as experiential/bilingual education does

KIPP and other schools have high test scores with mostly black/economically disadvantaged student bodies: they teach too much to the test, it's "not a good fit" for my kid.

school like Cap City has middling test scores and a curriculum similar to that of a HRCS (see also, IB at Banneker and Eastern): I can't send my kid there because the test scores show there's not a cohort of high performers.
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Sort of.

IMO, what most DCUM families want in a preschool and elementary school is quite different than what they want as high school and college approach.

They're all for play-based preschool, lots of recess minimal assessments, specials and enrichment opportunities. Immersion is a big plus. And they want a school full of students who start scoring well on PARCC by 3rd without any explicit test prep.

Basically they want a progressive private school through 3rd or 4th, and a high achieving suburban or wealthier urban middle and high school environment with advanced classes, IB or AP, and classmates who are scoring in the 1400-1500s on the SAT.
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