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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To add the following schools rank above SWS when it comes to just white student performance:

Math 
Marie Reed
Stoddert 
Payne
Janney 
Lafayette 
Tyler 
Watkins 
Key 
Maury
Inspired 
Eaton 
DC Bilingual 
LT
Ross
Shepherd 
Mann
Oyster 
Hyde 
Even Jefferson MS
Two Rivers
Powell

ELA
Ross 
Powell
Bancroft
LT
Key
Payne
Shepherd 
Eaton 
Maury
Janney
Hearst 
Stoddert 
Inspired 
Lafayette 
Jefferson middle (again, only showing cuz CH), Sojourner Truth for that matter
DCB
Two rivers Young
Watkins 
Mann
Brent 
Tyler 
Murch
Oyster 
Hyde
Two Rivers 4th
Marie Reed

Also to point out again, SWS has the highest population of white kids outside of the WOTP and some IB CH schools.

SWS has a long way to go. It’s sort of like the CH version of Creative Minds - white people continue to enroll to be amongst white people, not because it’s a better school.

Don’t get me started on their Black student performance. Their ELA scores a whopping 15% - the worst school in the City is scores 11%. They are tied for 5th from last place! Math is a tad better at 27%, tied with Bridges and below Center City Brightwood, Height….

So tell me what exactly does SWS do well?

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"Here is 1 metric, based off a flawed standardized test, that a small minority of parents actually care about."
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Oh come on. No one is saying PARCC tests are perfect, but when your white kids are underperforming schools in the city most of your parents would never consider and you're tied for 5th worst in the city for AA acheivement in the subject most linked to social mobility (ELA) at a school w/ enormous parental resources and social capital which claims that racial equity is basically its driving mission... something would seem to be very wrong. [/quote]

It stands to reason that SWS parents may be a little less hard charging at home when it comes to academics and that that posture coheres with SWS’s more gentle approach. If it’s a good fit for them, why complain?

Wouldn’t work for my kids, but is there some evidence that SWS kids fall on their face elsewhere? If not, let SWS be SWS now, let SWS be SWS tomorruh, let SWS be SWS forevah!![/quote]

Because we all pay taxes for all kids to be educated, not learn to make vegan brownies. Fact of the matter is a school can walk and chew gum at the same time. My kids have gone to 2 of the schools that are considered gentle approach (with fewer white kids and more at risk kids) and they far out perform SWS on about every data.

I’m the poster that posted the stats and my primary reason for posting them was to bring the SWS parent that bragged about SWS’s math scores down a notch. In fact, when you dig in you can see they’re rather abysmal with every peer group compared. [/quote]

And the reason for this is because SWS has shoved academics aside in favor of this BS: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1123051.page[/quote]

Sheesh. The white affinity group based on race is exactly what keeps Trump a viable candidate.[/quote]

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