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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you look at the report?  ^^^^^ Apparently not but that's ok.  You have this hate for DCPS and it is all good in the scheme of things.  We hate you too.[/quote]

Nope. No hate for DC, just embarrassment and despair.

People here have talked about the avg # of students in a school, as if that is the problem.

The top BASIS schools (#3 and #5) had about the same # of students as our top schools, and VA and MD and TJ make it clear that this is not the problem.

Someone also mentioned student teacher ratios.  About the same.  Finally, our top schools, who rate terribly on college readiness, are mostly selective - like #2 TJ - so that cannot be the problem either.

I am copying the top stats from DC, MD, and VA, and unless someone wants AGAIN to refer to our problem as "demographic" - read too many [poor] black kids, and black kids are stupid, people here ought to care.  We cannot stay in denial because our kids are paying the price, and should be furious because we are being cheated - by whom and how I have no idea, but we are graduating a lot of students from our "top" high schools who are probably not ready for anything but community college or ITT tech.  NOT ok with me.

This is the first time I have had kids old enough to look at where we stand and now I REALLY understand why people feel they have to move to Md and VA if they don't have the $ to pay the freight for private and are not zoned for Deal/Wilson  (whose rank I did look up, but apparently white high SES kids do actually get into decent colleges via the academies and so Wilson actually counts ).

Maryland           rank     teacher student ratio   total pop   college readiness
Churchill           52        19:1                         2,113        85.6
Whitman           59        17:1                         1,951        84.2
Poolesville         99        19:1                         1,170        75.6
Wooton            105       19:1                          2,409        74.6
Montgomery      106                                       2,004        74.6
BCC                  126      19:1                            1,799      69.7

Virginia
TJ                     4         17:1                            1,811      100%
Langley             84        20:1                            2,902      79.2
Madison           101         20.1                           2,000      75.3
Mclean             107         20:1                           1,952       74.4
Woodson          126         20:1                           6, 210      72.0

The District of Columbia
SWW               266          12:1                           456          56.2
BB                   461          14:1                            461         47.2
Ellington          1772         39:1                             506         20.7
McKinley          1897          14:1                             689        19.1
no other school ranked

So now that we are dealing with real numbers, let's have a real discussion

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