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Do you really not see the distinction?  Presumably RHS's scores have been relatively consistent.  Maybe 5 one year or 6 another.  People would ask the same type of questions if RHS or any other schools had a sudden drop, say from a 5 or 6 to a 1 or 2.

I freely admit that some people might offer different theories on why the drop occurred and maybe those theories would be fair and fact based, maybe they wouldn't. But I hope people would be asking the questions.

And most people acknowledge that test scores and therefore GS scores are heavily correlated to socioeconomic status, a major weakness in using them to measure school quality.  Therefore, if there had been a change in the average Whitman students background, that would be another potential explanation.  But I don't believe that has been the case.[/quote]

Rockville HS scores were low because there are lots of poor students. Churchill HS scores were high because there are very few poor students. And Whitman HS scores were low because Whitman parents instilled a sense of right and wrong in their children?

I mean, really.[/quote]

That's not remotely what I have said.  I haven't argued at all about a sense of right and wrong in kids and I, in my mind, tanking a test would be a poor way to of demonstrating values, even if you thought the test or an emphasis on testing was misguided.

I have simply argued that students tanking a test strikes me as a plausible explanation for what occurred given the dramatic drop in test scores in a one year period for which I haven't seen many other explanations offered.
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