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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you suggesting that there is serious moral hazard to recognizing progress? My child is at one of the recognized schools. The principal could point to gains the school has achieved over the past five years and easily get a job in a suburban school district with much higher academic performance. Same thing for many of the teachers. I don’t know that recognizing their hard work absolves the central office of anything or that it sends a signal that they have reached peak performance.

It’s also grating that any time schools with a sizeable at-risk population are recognized, their work is immediately diminished because “they must be teaching to the test” or “but what about middle school.”

Agree with this parent- I am a parent with children in DCPS, private and charter (pk-8). I am also an educator and in my role I am all over the DMV in different classrooms in different counties. I have seen some outstanding DCPS and DC Charter teachers and met some outstanding principals. I have seen some not so great situations, but that is every single county across the DMV. Teachers/ principals from DC can easily get jobs in other schools outside of DC. It's strange how there are so many education "experts" on DCUM who I guess know more about the landscape than people who are actually in it. I also taught in both VA and DC and PARCC is much harder to "teach to the test" than the SOLs. It is much more based in critical thinking and problem-solving. But, all of the education experts here would know more than me I guess.

BTW this thread is bizarre. It started with someone sharing an article celebrating schools where clearly the teachers and principals are working hard and making progress with their students and turned into a platform to bash these schools. I know how hard this job is and clearly the 14 schools listed in this article are doing something right and making gains.

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