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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.  I-Ready probably asks some questions on subject matter that has not been taught yet at the beginning of the year so lots of kids miss those questions early on and answer them correctly later.  But that is not really self-serving.  It is certainly possible to test above grade level at the start of the year on I-Ready and then just stagnate.  [/quote]

That’s what happened with both my kids. Worked with them over the summer. They were above grade level coming in this year. Then slowly slid backwards. Thanks SWS![/quote]

SWS has among the best math PARCC scores on the Hill excluding Brent which is a higher SES population. Don't think you're getting much better anywhere else in DCPS. Everything taught was appropriate grade level and they got a math worksheet for homework every week which had the same kinds of grade appropriate questions as Khan academy, etc. 
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You are certainly going to get better at JKLMM schools. The math worksheets are a joke. They’re maybe 8 problems for the entire week. I’m not a big advocate for more homework, but the math instruction is weak. [/quote]

[bActually better or just find a higher percentage of very high SES kids with type A parents who freak out about test scores and immediately/automatically ensure their kid has tutoring on top of 7 extracurriculars? SWS is a bit different in that SES may be lower across ALL ethnicities.[/b] It's a city wide school so many people are there because they cannot afford to live in a school district with better performing scores. Take the median SES at SWS even among the caucasian ethnicity and I promise you, it's going to be lower than Maury.

However, DCUM talks like 100% of parents could have chosen Brent or JKLMM. Do you understand the wealth bubble you live in to make that type of claim?

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You’re asserting that there are LMC or poor white kids at SWS? Seriously? That is laughable.

PARCC scores are broken out by race. Compare the SWS UMC white kid scores to the NW or Brent UMC white kid scores. And yes, they are UMC by any metric. [/quote]

Yes, I'm asserting there are more regular MC/LMC white folks at SWS who can't afford to live in bounds for something more desirable and lottery in. I'd also assert that people who live in bounds for Brent are over the top rich, not just UMC. If you are affording a $1M+ home, you are rich. Not everyone lives in your (apparently rich?) bubble? Not everyone has choices the way you think they do.[/quote]

There are virtually no LMC white families in DC, much less all at SWS. I live on a street with 3 SWS families and every one of them has a house that would sell for over $1 million. They pass about 10 other families en route to drop off; all of them live in $1 million+ houses too. Are there going to be some families who don’t? Of course, but much of the Maury zone has houses well under that range (16th st & east, e.g.)… and even the Brent zone has apartments. Brent is also only 65% IB, so nearly 1/3rd exactly the same types of folks you’re describing st SWS.[/quote]

I’m not sure how you defined LMC/MC but the median DC income is around 100k. There are certainly white/
 nonprofit/Hill staff families in DC that probably fall under that if a parent stays home or if there is a divorce. One secret of Capitol Hill is that you can actually rent apartments and houses for comparatively little. So there absolutely could be a significant number of MC white families renting here. [/quote]

LMC is not defined relative to a single city's median income. In a divorce situation, both parents' incomes count in terms of national statistics for child poverty except in cases of abandonment/non collection of child support. Very few white families on the Hill have a full time stay at home parent, much less one where the other makes sub-100K. You cannot rent apartments or houses sized for a family for compartively little.[/quote]

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