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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the bigger issue are the test scores.  the HS kids are so far behind why should they bother showing up? At ballou less than 3% meet grade expectations?  how about you must have a 3 on a parcc test to move on?[/quote]

That has been shown to increase drop out rates -- same problem by a different name. The kids who aren't showing up have effectively dropped out, but they are on the books all the way to graduation.[/quote]

You need to do this from day one starting at elementary school.

DCPS should ship all youth who are over 2 years behind to either a KIPP or DC Prep school.  They are the only ones that can get results from these populations.  For the extra hard discipline cases there needs to be a military style school (this would be less than 5% per school)

by high school its too late and I agree most would drop out.  Over time kids would get on grade level following the above, until then if kids are more than 3 grad levels behind in 9th grade they should go straight to an apprenticeship program.  We are wasting time with the kids who can learn and these kids keeping them in a traditional high school program.[/quote]

DC Prep and KIPP have very good results with the population they serve but they also have extremely high suspension rates. I'm not disagreeing with the suspensions rates but want to point out that Council and others have raised that the suspension practices drive the kids who don't conform out of KIPP and DC Prep and they wind back up in DCPS. That's part of the reason for the results. It's great for the kids who stay - they don't have to deal with the those who don't value the school as much (or for whatever reason are being suspended) but it doesn't help DCPS when those kids show back up in DCPS schools. [/quote]

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