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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]5 Star Elementary

Eaton Elementary School
Hyde-Addison Elementary School
Janney Elementary School
Mann Elementary School
Marie Reed Elementary School
Maury Elementary School
Oyster-Adams Bilingual School
SWS
Washington Yu Ying
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Not impressed with this list. There are real problems at some of these supposedly 5-star schools.  We like SWS, but our children haven't been taught to write effectively there over the years. They can't spell, punctuate or use good grammar there to save their lives in the upper grades, which seems to be the norm at SWS, leaving us to hire writing tutors. We know Maury families who bailed for "lesser" schools to avoid 18 months worth of trailers at miserable Eliot-Hine MS. We know a bunch of YuYing kids in their neighborhood whose spoken Chinese is hopeless after many years of "immersion" study (one of us is a native Mandarin speaker). Janney is super crowded. Lafayette, Murch and Brent didn't make the list, and they're more popular that some schools that did, with 100% in-boundary kindergartens.  Etc etc.

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This rating system isn’t meant to grade spelling, building condition, size, second language efficiency, and popularity. It’s a good think you didn’t design the system.[/quote]

PP makes a fair point, schools that obviously need major improvement score 5s.  Develop a ranking system more rooted in common sense and market forces, thanks. It's not good that whoever designed the system did.[/quote]

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