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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+100.  More than 70% of IB 5 year olds in the Brent District now attend for K.   DCPS keeps these stats.

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And? How on earth are you making this about Brent and ECE? Look at the thread title. This is about SH.

No one has suggested that Brent isn't an IB school or that it doesn't do ECE very well. What we have argued is that SH feeders are excelling in tested grades, and that those schools have feeder rights to SH, which is good for SH.  Everything isn't about you![/quote]

Why don’t you double check the scores for Watkins and JO and try again. [/quote]

I did, and Watkins matches Brent for 5th grade math, approaches Brent for 4th grade math (the delta is actually less than that between Brent and Maury) and is improving in ELA.  Which is consistent with what we have been saying about trajectory. To be sure JO is not there yet, but it is moving in the right direction and there's a larger group of rising K and 1st that will be of testing age in two years.

But here's my question back to you: what do you get from taking shots at other schools? Besides the fact that the data doesn't say what you think it says. What is this knee jerk reaction from some Brent families that anyone else who is also excelling or improving must necessarily be taking something from or hurting Brent? Why do you think it is a zero sum game?

I have said before and I will say again, I believe there is a group of Brent families that live in fear of SH actually becoming what many of us hope it becomes. Is it because if that happens then (i) the pipe dream of DCPS coming running back to the warm embrace of Brent to "save SH" dies and (ii) the 4th wall of reality that protects you from having to face the reality that other schools and communities and cohorts are as smart or moneyed or sophisticated comes crashing down around you. [/quote]

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