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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That principal?!

We live on Capitol Hill. My spouse and I met with Brown when when we were looking into the IB Diploma program at Eastern for our oldest in early 2020, before the pandemic began.

Brown seemed clueless about what it would take to attract high SES in-boundary families like ours to Eastern, without any real interest in doing so. He claimed that the program offered "real rigor and challenge to all" repeatedly, and wouldn't answer our questions about Eastern's average IBD points totals. He also wouldn't talk about how many of the "full Diploma" students at Eastern actually earn the Diploma.

Later on, we learned that Eastern's average points total has been mired in the mid 20s, on a 24-45 points pass scale, since the program's inception a decade ago. We also learned that most of the Eastern students who try to earn the Diploma have failed since the get go. We left the meeting unimpressed with Brown and Eastern's IBD program and didn't enroll our child.
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So, let me get this right. You walked into this man’s office with your white hood on, took it off, handed it to him and asked him to put it on. He rebuffed your offer and you decided you didn’t like him. Eastern HS kids test poorly due to various reasons (poverty, trauma, inequality, etc). He does not have to explain any of that to you. Your child could have obtained a good education there, but your classism and racism prevented you from entertaining the thought of your child in that school.[/quote]

You totally pwned that poster! And that’s what matters.it’s not whether there’s any merit to what the original poster wrote, but in whether you sounding cool, and regurgitating social justice buzzwords, which in actuality, just distract from the real issues that Eastern sucks. It sucks because parents are not involved enough with their kids, because of the soft bigotry of low expectations, because of bad teachers, and generally it’s an intractable issue until the wealthy surrounding families decide to send their precious jewels there, who are well behaved and care about learning and there’s enough to form a crucial mass.

That’s the truth. I don’t care about your slam dunking comments. The truth to anyone not afraid to say it is that yes High SES parents are the only reason these types of schools turn around. You can’t deny it and you’d be wrong if you did. I’m sorry we’re in some post truth era where everyone is offended by eve everything. It only hurts more to have to be honest, because truth hurts.[/quote]

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