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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Got it. More than 90% of us leave Brent for BASIS, Latin, private schools, the burbs, homeschool classrooms, and other parts of the country and world because we're irrational at best, fools and iniquitous racists at worst.

Having Jefferson Academy as our by-right middle school is clearly a pearls-before-pigs situation in light of our willful ignorance of the manifold wonders of the program.

After all, what could possibly count more than stellar PARCC scores for a dozen white kids in a school with hundreds of students?[/quote]

All I said is that the hard data does [i] not[/i] support the proposition that UMC kids are unlikely to succeed at Jefferson. And I fully stand by that.

I did not in any way cast aspersions on those who choose a different path. Frankly, I don't know why you're being so defensive about this.

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And you have a very limited definition of what “succeed” means, and also presumtuous to believe that no UMC needs more attention. [/quote]

OMG. Once again, all I said is that the [i]hard data[/i] does not support the proposition that UMC kids are unlikely to succeed at Jefferson. As far as I am aware, test scores are the only hard data we have on this point. And I am nearly certain that if the PARCC performance of those "dozen white kids" had been either poor or mediocre, people would be on here touting it as clear evidence of Jefferson's failings. But they can't -- because the results are stellar.

And, once again, I did not cast aspersions on those who make a different choice. Nor did I in any way suggest that Jefferson is the right choice for everyone (UMC or not).

Does it really bother you so much that someone has highlighted one apparently positive aspect of Jefferson Academy through the use of data?

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We don't have "hard data" for every educational choice, and not all of us are going to wait around for the double-blind RCT trial or whatever.  I'm happy that some kids (of all colors) are passing the PARCC at Jefferson. The overall picture is not good enough for my kid. Too risky.  And to say "he'll be fine, he's white" raises all sorts of other questions ... [/quote]

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