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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because of parents whose behavior looks for the sure thing then notes the collective dynamic that does not lead large numbers of them to engage.

People talk about a lot of sides of segregation and discrimination, I think somebody should look harder at this unwillingness to take a leap of faith away from status group herd behavior. Because in DC I think it’s very real.

My expectation is that the teachers teach the student body they have. If they have students with drive, experience, technical abilities, they can work with that. None of our kids are doing technically jaw dropping STEM work at 14.
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Is your kid at McKinley? My experience so far “taking a leap of faith” at a “diverse” DCPS is that it is in no way academically where it should be, and I’m not willing to continue that into HS. [/quote]

So you are at the school currently. You are a white family. You are not impressed and will be leaving? Please share more specifics about what about the school has not been good enough for your child. [/quote]

Simply put the teachers feel no responsibility to prepare the kids for selective HS and college because 90% of the kids are not taking that route. Because of this the level of instruction is set much lower than at a school where more is expected. Kids permitted not to do work in class, to turn in 1-sentence answers. Teachers who just take the day off and let kids be on screens all class if they feel like it. Some teacher very good but overall little effort. A few teachers VERY bad in a way that would not be tolerated at a more affluent school. [/quote]

Just to clarify.  The poster a few comments back said they took the leap of faith and was unwilling to continue for HS.  That suggests this comment is referring to their middle school and not McKinley Tech HS.[/quote]

Yes I am PP and discussing MS. Which I think bears a lot more resemblance to HS than people’s experience in T1 elementary. [/quote]

This thread is about the HS, which is entirely selective. Kids who cause trouble and have low grades will not get in to McKinley. [/quote]

Come on. McKinley is not actually selective the way most people mean. Maybe it screens out the most serious behaviors which is a plus, I’ll give you that. But the test results really do speak for themselves.

I’m in the trenches now at a low performing MS and I’m telling you, it is 100% wishful thinking to believe that your kid is going to get a strong education at McKinley anywhere near like the public HS most DCUM parents attended. It has nothing to do with race because Banneker is great.

Some DC parents might be fine with this, and some kids who are naturally very self-motivated and winning might do fine. But no doubt about they will be behind where their suburban peers are when they start college. My nephews in high performing public schools start learning to write research papers and have classes devoted to study skills starting in 6th grade. Meanwhile in my kid’s 6th grade they are happy if the kids remained seated in class and expect three sentence responses. [/quote]

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