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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are many highly educated parents on Capitol Hill who have over extended themselves in regards to real estate. As a result, they aren't as likely to move to the suburbs for a better education.

Many of these parents have worked very, very hard to make the 3 schools mentioned in this thread better. The parents at Brent seem to have had the best results. The fact that Brent's boundaries are now all very expensive homes helps this effort.

Unfortunately the intensity and drive around the elementary schools can grow a bit tiresome. Of late, the frenzy is directed at improving middle schools.

In the meantime, the education at these three schools ranges from pretty good to just ok in the lower grades. By the testing grades an inordinate amount of time is spent doing DCBAS tests, ANET tests and then the DCCAS. At some of these schools children take six (yes 6) practice tests to ready themselves for the CAS.

The CAS is rapped, pep rallied and at one school Tshirts were distributed with the children's college graduation years on the back. Pressure much?

Some children cope well with this sort of testing. Others crumble.

In short, the test scores mostly test the income level of the parents and how much the kids have been drilled. Of course if they get drilled too much, some of the kids end up making snowflake patterns in the bubble dots.

Now how about JO Wilson and the plummeting test scores there? Nobody is chatting much about that school, which until last year had the highest test scores for a Cap Hill elementary school. Still waiting to see what the cheating investigation is going to say about erasures there. 
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I have children in DCPS testing grades.  I think the aversion to testing sounds like a good issue, and in some ways it is absolutely founded, but in general it is overplayed.  The kids at our DCPS elementary do not suffer en masse from anxiety.

And I LOVE testing data - standardized test especially.  I want to compare my kids to South Korea and Milwaukee.  I figure my kids can suffer a week or two of big tests and a bunch of smaller ones in order for me to understand best how to micromanage and overthink their education - it is for dad's greater good.[/quote]

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