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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my kid there is way above grade level and having a good time. Likes teachers and classes.

DCUM conventional wisdom is just gonna be what it's gonna be. People don't come here to learn, they come here for (self-)reinforcement.[/quote]

I mean, good for your kid. But I think it’s also important to know you are an extreme minority. Most people for good reasons seek out settings where they are not extreme outliers. And I’m not talking about race - I’m talking about academic need. Basically you likely have very specific personal/family/kid quirks that are far from generalizable for most DCUM parents. [/quote]

You know neither the PP or most DCUM parents… why do you feel that you can speak for/about them?? [/quote]

I can look at the numbers at MacFarland and pretty clearly conclude that most DCUM parents’ choice to send their kid there would be very counter-cultural for our socio-economic class (again NOT race). If you’re a counter-cultural family, cool, go for it. But there’s always the ONE parent who insists “my kid is THRIVING at [x terrible school] and you need to take that with a giant grain of salt because it likely will not be acceptable to most of us. (And as it pertains to MS, do ask them where they plan to send Jr to HS. It’s not Dunbar. Usually they plan to go private or assume Walls admission.)[/quote]\]

I love that this thread is literally called "experience at MacFarland", a parent shared their experience, and then a person who does not have family there told them that their experience was wrong. 
Took less than 1 page for this to reach peak DCUM[/quote]

my post is how to interpret people’s representation about their experience. very valid. [/quote]

NP but no.  Not valid.  Your post is how to discredit first-hand experience with your preconceptions about a school

I'm not even zoned for Macfarland but you're adding nothing to the thread other than undiluted obnoxious DCUM je ne sais quoi.[/quote]

NP.  Data doesn’t lie.  But lots of boosters on DCUM of failing schools who twist the truth to fit their agenda and convince themselves that they made the right choice.  Fact.[/quote]

NP. Data doesn't lie, true. But it's not clear that every parent cares about the data, and at any rate, as a PP said, the data is publicly available, and the OP here sought first-hand experience (i.e., anecdotes) that they're presumably going to use in conjunction with the data. We don't need to come in here and assert that the first-hand experience doesn't matter, when that's specifically what the OP asked for; how is that remotely helpful?

Also, how do you know that the PPs who reported positively about the school are "twisting the truth"? They didn't claim the PARCC scores were wrong, they said their kids were having good experiences at the school despite the data.[/quote]

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