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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m sorry, are people really trying to claim white families fleeing to charters in droves ISN’T about race. Lol, DCUM never change.[/quote]

It’s not about race.  It’s about academic peer groups and high expectations.

In title 1 DCPS schools don’t have either.

And I’m not white.[/quote]

Are you suggesting all poor kids are dumb?  And that teachers have low expectations of them?

You sound like a conservative think tank moron who has never set foot in a DCPS.[/quote]

Have you seen the test scores in DCPS? Are you suggesting that they don't correlate to parental income? Are you suggesting that the scores are anything but awful? Here's an article with DCPS cheering progress even though at risk students had a 21 percent pass rate for ELA and a 16 percent pass rate for math- that sounds like low expectations to me https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/19/dc-students-make-steady-gains-english-portion-standardized-exam/[/quote]

Nothing like using two year old standardized test scores as a measure of expectations for a school district. I don't take anyone seriously who uses test scores as a measure of excellence, especially in an ES[/quote]

I’m sure they would have drastically improved last year if the kids took them. Do you really think that the schools are great and doing well, and it’s just a bad coincidence that the children can neither read on grade level nor do math on grade level?[/quote]

If you think thats what these tests are assessing, I've got bad news for you.  I've taught math in the district for a long time and can promise you that there is minimal correlation between grade level math standards and the ways questions are asked on a standardized test such as PARCC.  And that's before getting into all the technological issues (students typing in a number with/without a comma, using the slash bar instead of a fraction bar, mistyping a number, adding a unit when the question only wanted the numerical answer)[/quote]

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