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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don't plan on doing the lottery, we will go with the local school and supplement through extracurricular activities at home.

Our daycare is really diverse and we don't care about school rankings. [/quote]

Famous last words.[/quote]

People like us are not myths.  Many of my neighbors with kids at Takoma and Whittier made the decision not to play the lottery.  Some of us now with kids in upper elementary and even Ida B Wells.  I know others that did lottery out.  Almost all for language immersion options.  [/quote]

Chiming in here as one of those very happy Wells parents![/quote]

NP and I’m curious if you will keep you kid at Coolidge when the time comes.[/quote]

We all know the answer to that. Notice they aren't responding.[/quote]

Different poster but we plan to go to Ida B Wells and then cast a wider net for DCPS HS.  Unlike MS there are enough application options for HS that we are confident our kid will land somewhere OK.  We are also keeping an eye on how the early college program at Coolidge evolves over time.  [/quote]

You are delusional.  There are not enough spots at application high schools.  Talk to all the people who did not get into SWW, or even Banneker.  It’s obvious DCPS is favoring low SES students with their opaque requirements.

BTW those seats get more and more competitive every year as more families come up the chain needing spots.  [/quote]

You can’t have it both ways.  If more families stay in DCPS then cohorts of on grade level kids will be in more schools.  I am, for example, someone who would consider the IB program at Eastern if we lived on capital hill.  I am not delusional simply because I have a wider view of an acceptable school than you.  [/quote]

This is where you are delusional. The IB program at Eastern sounds good in theory but you are still taking most of your classes with all the Eastern students not just the IB cohort. If I was interested in IB which I am not particularly interested in, I would have my kid apply to Banneker and hope they get in. I work for DCPS Central and have spent time at Eastern many times during the school day and no way would I send my kid to Eastern.
Many of you are starry eyed because your kids are younger and you don’t have much exposure to the day-to-day inside DCPS high schools. Wake up! [/quote]

As a parent of a middle schooler in the Eastern feeder pattern, I wanted to share something I only recently became aware of. I cannot speak firsthand about the program, but have talked to a few parents whose kids are in 9th or 10th grade in the program. They have a 'pre-IB' application program called EPIC that offers advanced coursework. https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=456727&type=d
Anyway - we will explore it more as our kid approaches 8th grade and compares high school options, but the impression I got at the Open House is that the program has existed for a few years, but the new principal is building it out and more kids are enrolling.[/quote]

Last year, Eastern had 19 kids who scored proficient in English 1 and one scoring proficient in Algebra 1 (and zero in geometry). One! That is the problem they are dealing with here. So if they tell you that there is currently a program offering advanced coursework, and they currently enrolling more than one 10th grader, what that means is that they are putting kids who are below grade level in math in a program and they are calling it "advanced." It may still be better than the alternative. Kids who are not at grade level can be motivated and hard-working and not disruptive. But if DCPS tells you they are offering advanced coursework at a school that doesn't have a significant cohort of kids who are at grade level, you should not take their word for it. [/quote]

As somebody whose kid is in 6th grade and just starting to enter the years where math tracking starts, this conversation makes my brain hurt. If somebody who has been through upper middle school/high school PARCC and can explain it in layman terms, please do so. From my understanding, when the advanced cohort takes the higher level math in middle school, that makes them NOT take the algebra and/or geometry PARCC in high school, due to the years where the tests are administered. Which then makes for a not entirely accurate sample/data set when looking at high school PARCC results, because you are only assessing kids who were not in advanced courses. Is that correct? (not to mention, judging an entire high school entirely on a few standardized test results is a bit absurd, but that is another conversation).

The PARCC site is vague about who takes which test when once things start tracking:
https://dcps.dc.gov/parcc#:~:text=Students%20in%20grades%203%E2%80%938,will%20take%20the%20PARCC%20test.

I found a thread from last fall that went into it, but it is just DCUM so who knows how accurate it is: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/1151471.page
"I just realized that there is no PARCC for 11th and 12th grade math. So the high school PARCC only represents students in Alg 1, Geo and Alg 2 and excludes those who have already completed these by 10th grade. The high performers are likely completely excluded in these numbers."
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Eastern doesn't report that any students took the Algebra II PARCC. So for 9th graders to be excluded in this data, they'd be coming in with 3+ years of high school math. Maybe there is some kind of bimodal population where the vast majority of students are not at grade level, and then you have students who are coming in 3+ years ahead in math. I think this is unlikely. [/quote]

This.  The kids aren’t even on grade level and PP above arguing that there is likely a good cohort kids so far ahead that there is no data?   Seriously? [/quote]

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