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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um. Send your kid there if you want better test scores for your IB school. Or realize that you don't want to deal with issues of urban poverty and move off the Hill as you threaten. The test scores are a function of who is in the school, not the quality of the school.[/quote]

Take a hike.

Test scores are not simply a function of who is in the school.  If they were, math scores for white kids at BASIS (mostly from Cap Hill) wouldn't be at least ten points higher than those for white kids at Hobson (almost all from the Hill) across grades.  Before you launch into me for suggesting a comparison of white kids' scores, I suggest this only as a means affording us an apples-to-apples (high SES to high SES) comparison.

If you truly want to help "deal with the issues of urban poverty" push DC public to incentivize high SES parents to use by-right middle schools in droves, rather than pointlessly seeking to shame them for failing to send their children.  The only draw that could possibly work well would be for diverse schools like Hobson to offer a full complement of at and above-grade level offerings where catchment areas support the demographics to fill such classes, or in city-wide catchment areas through test-in GT programs.  I suggest this as a grad of Boston Latin. Some of my best B-Latin buddies are low SES minority kids with professional degrees from Ivies.  [/quote]

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