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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. If you look at the white subscores, EH kids actually do as well or better than any other MS including Latin, Deal etc. I hate making this argument because it sounds so privileged and like I don’t care about black kids.  But it firmly dispels the notion that kids “are not learning.”

And to me, the more interesting stat is PARCC 3s. Those are solid kids doing well despite a lot of possible disadvantages. They’re bright kids engaged in learning.

I’m not sure what more I have to contribute to this thread except my original post, which is “PARCC scores do not reflect my kid’s overall experience.” I’d just really encourage parents to consider whether your perceptions are fear and anxiety based, or whether you can try something unfamiliar to your own educational background. The kids are alright, I promise! [/quote]

I appreciate your comment, but as a mother to non-white kids, it’s not true that “the kids are alright”. Our kids count too. [/quote]

Of course nonwhite kids count, and of course the best way to evaluate a school is by knowing what's actually going on there. But test scores are not disaggregated by family background (except for at-risk), and in DC almost all white kids are in families with well-educated parents. There are many families of other races with well-educated parents, but overall those groups are more diverse. So if you only have test scores, a simple way to see how kids from families with well-educated parents are doing is to look at the white kids.[/quote]

I used to think like this, until I realized that data was often suppressed at the subject/grade level because there just aren't enough white kids at most schools for that level of granularity. Then I had an epiphany. I actually don't really care so much about percentages for a small number of white kids or even that much about percentages overall. I mostly just care that my child has a large enough cohort of peers who are capable of and motivated to do grade-level (or above) work. A large enough cohort means they have friends pushing them to succeed academically. A large enough cohort means the school might be able to justify setting aside resources to teach grade-level (or above) material.[/quote]

I think it's actually both. If a school is a Janney with almost entirely UMC kids, then if they suddenly had a 50% 4+ rate, I'd assume something was seriously wrong despite 50% being a plenty large enough cohort from my perpspective.[/quote]

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