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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regardless of whether you are a white person making $75k, $130k or $300k, the school should not get a pass for not teaching middle class white kids to be on grade level with academics. Do you really think SWS white kids are more poor than white kids at Marie Reed, Inspired, Payne, Shepherd, DC Bilingual, Powell, Two Rivers? Their overall at risk is 10% which means not even all the Black and Latino students that have are at risk yet only 15% have efficiency rates.

Why are you all giving SWS a pass for their abysmal scores? The short answer is that you like the school because it’s “granola, safe, and holistic” read = White.[/quote]

What you aren't getting is that for many families, "on grade level" is totally fine, especially if the kids are getting other things that a family deems a priority. You may not like the "granola, safe, and holistic" approach to education but there are many families that do. There is a reason that schools like SWS, CHMS, charter Montessori's, ITDS, etc., often have lengthy waiting lists. People like small class sizes, experiential learning, a de-emphasis on testing, etc. You might hate it, which is fine, because you don't have to send your kids there.

Your obsession with test scores at SWS as though the families who send kids there are unaware of the test scores is getting tired. People know. And some of those people could send their kids to Brent or L-T or Maury or private if test scores were their main concern. They could move, etc. They don't. Why?

Because those schools don't offer things that SWS does offer, which is a gentler, more holistic educational approach combined with good enough academics.

Not everyone views public schools as college applicant factories.[/quote]

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