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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the PP, most parents assume a HS of 1700 kids would have enough tracked options for high achieving students.  Also walls is going be harder to get into as they are now limiting the number of white kids specifically.  [/quote]

Can you provide some support for this assertion?

There was an attempt last year to allow students that did not meet the PARCC standard to sit for the test if they were among the top 15 students academically at their middle school.  The school did not give proper notice of the policy change and students were not allowed to sit for the test.  I am not aware of any plans other that giving proper notice of this policy change this year.  That is only allowing students to sit for the test and yes those students are likely POC given the demographics in DC.  This is not, however, an attempt to limit the number of “white kids” at SWW.

If they are otherwise looking at changing the standards for admissions I have not heard of read anything about it.  I was fairly tuned in to such discussions last year as I had a student applying that is now a 9th grader there.[/quote]

They eliminated PARCC requirements and also said they wanted more equal representation from all the wards.  That means wards 7 and 8.  That’s code for less white kids from ward 3.  In fact, last year leaders in DCPS personally went to low achieving middle schools to let them know to have the kids apply.  [/quote]

Can you point me to where SWW gave notice they are changing the requirements for sitting for the exam and the statements re ward representation?  I would like to see the context.  Thanks.[/quote]

I've never seen anything precisely about ward representation but the hope is that changing the requirement for sitting for the Walls exam will lead to a more economically diverse student body. They screwed up laslt year by not getting DCPS approval to change the criteria early enough, but intend to use it for 2019-20.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dcs-plan-to-diversify-one-of-its-most-selective-high-schools-is-delayed-by-a-year/2019/02/09/2cceb9a4-2b18-11e9-b2fc-721718903bfc_story.html?arc404=true

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This article refers to exactly what I said, allowing the top 15 students at all DCPS middle schools to sit for the test regardless of whether they make the requisite PARCC scores.  This is not lowering the actual bar, which is passing the test.  [/quote]

They are lowering the bar for taking the test by eliminating PARCC scores. Then to get the at risk and more diversity in, they can easily lower the bar for who they interview by lowering the cut off score.  Then the interview determines who gets in - easy to pick at risk students since no transparency there and all subjective.[/quote]

Or even if they don't lower the bar significantly (they do not want students who fail or are counseled out) a close-call or tie goes to the student from an underrepresented ward. Which to me is fine, as it's a city-wide school and has never pretended to be only about the test scores. [/quote]

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