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Ok but you should also note they hired tutors for the kids. I’m a current parent and know the third graders had tutoring for the test last year and a lot of parents also supplement. Let’s tell the whole story. [/quote]

I’m also a parent and I read it differently. They had two - three hours of group tutoring/week for 4-6 weeks leading up to the test, and scores improved significantly. That amount of tutoring was focused on familiarizing the kids with the kinds of questions they’d see on the PARCC. To me this gives weight to the idea that part of the reason scores have been low is that the kids aren’t learning the material the way it is tested on the PARCC, and that they probably know more than PARCC indicates. The scores were generally average or above amongst “comparable” schools.

Do you think parents supplement more at Lee than at other similar schools? I don’t have any reason to think so.

I’m not saying the scores were great, just that Lee isn’t doing particularly badly compared to other schools with similar demographics, which is a common criticism of Lee.

The main point I was making here is that opening EE hasn’t dragged down scores at Brookland. Though I suppose the added tutoring might be covering up losses caused by the expansion.

- Dave [/quote]

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