Reply to Capitol Hill Middle School and High School situation

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Capitol Hill Middle School and High School situation"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Meeting benchmarks and testing to grade level standards is one thing for elementary school. By middle school a child needs to be challenged to achieve their full potential and taught how to work hard to overcome challenges. Scoring a 5 on PARCC shows they meet benchmarks, but has nothing to do with whether they are being held to THEIR highest standard. So I personally don’t care about white kids’ test scores except when they’re being held up to show the school should be “good enough.” When that happens I know to look much more closely at what is actually happening in the classroom.[/quote]

THIS.  Just because they are on grade level on PARCC does not mean that they are reaching their full potential.  All those BS studies that says high SES kids will do fine in low performing schools - their definition of fine is going to college.  That’s a given.

Show me a rigorous back to back study of similarly high SES kids going to Jefferson/Eastern vs going to Basis and compare their outcomes on SAT scores, AP exams, GPA at similarly ranked colleges, etc…. That is a real study to look at outcomes, not just going to college.

I don’t need the study above to know the answer.  Just talk to any high school teacher in a poorly performing school what percentages of their kids fail out of college, struggle in college, etc….

Academic peer group matters a lot in middle and high school.  Those that don’t think so, feel free to send your kid to Jefferson.

BTW I’m not white either.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics