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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also find the gaslighting by the administration really frustrating. They are going full-steam ahead with their plan, while dismissing parent concerns. How difficult would it be to share with the parents and teachers the stats on how this has changed GPAs overall.  if it hasn’t, I will stop complaining. But I suspect grades have dropped and they are refusing to tell the parents [b]because the goal is to compress the grades at the top and raise the grades at the bottom to artificially improve equity. [/b]Everyone loses, but on paper the principal looks great. I also find it hypocritical that they say they care about mental health, but institute a system that increases stress with more tests and harsher grading. The kids who are doing better under this are those who are happy they don’t have to do the homework now. What kind of messed up system are we implementing? [/quote]

Exactly what equity needs to be improved at Madison?[/quote]

The GS rating.[/quote]

It's a stupid rating system that doesn't take into account when kids take classes or how grades compare to the state average. Just the discrepancy from low to high at the school. If you want to compare races against state and national averages, that's fine, but it's silly to compare how the highest kids in the school are somehow impacting the lowest kids in the school by aiming higher.
https://www.greatschools.org/virginia/vienna/541-Madison-High-School/[/quote]
Ok but still... those are some horrible equity ratings, like basically bottom.
How is it possible that URMs are doing so poorly at this school? Is it because the school is so vastly white and they effectively don't feel like they belong? I know that most schools in good areas have an equity gap but this is like a chasm.[/quote]

You have high achieving kids from middle to upper middle class and then you have students from migrants. There is also a CSS center there for kids that need that type of support. The PTA runs a food pantry at the school for anyone that needs it. 
It’s truly a mix of students from different academic and SES backgrounds.

That said, the elementary and middle schools that feed into Madison are awful for students that are not already academically talented. They let the average and below average (of all SES) slip through the cracks, then those kids get to high school and flounder because they don’t have the basic skills they needs.

We are upper middle class and my kid had learning disabilities. The elementary and middle schools were awful at providing any services. Just kept passing him along. He graduated from Madison having never written anything longer than a paragraph. They have different standards for different students. 
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